The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov, translated by John French I thought this would be a science-fiction story, because I vaguely remember phrases like “aliens” and “building rockets around the world” when I first saw it in a random booklist. But it’s actually first of all a story about a man’s life in the Soviet Union, and the life and deaths of his friends. It happens in the Soviet Union, but this story is not set at the center of it.