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The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

Author(s): Chingiz Aitmatov

Location(s): Kazakhstan

Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

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This is the story of Yedigei, a worker at a remote railway junction in the middle of the Kazakh steppes.The trains to East and West cross just here. Yedigei is taking the body of a friend to be buried in the steppes, and his life story is told in flashback.

The railway junction is near a rocket launch site, and the second, parallel story is that of cosmonauts at the nearby rocket launch site endeavouring to make contact with other civilisations.

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