And the day lasts for centuries

“And the day lasts longer than a century” is one of the most popular novels by Genghis Aitmatov.
The main character is Ediga, the switchman on the railway junction of Boranly-Burannaya. On the sides of the railway in these harsh edges are vast steppes, and here, except for the protagonist, only his best friend - Kazangap lives. When Kazangap dies, Ediga decides to bury him in the old Ana-Bayite cemetery-“mother’s mother”-covered with many legends and legends. However, at the site of the cemetery, where many generations of his ancestors rest, it has already been built by the sponge wire with the Cosmodrome with the watch at the gate ...
And the day lasts longer than a century - a complex of the composition of a romance in which myth and reality are intertwined, present and past