The latest addition to my website is Chinghiz Aitmatov‘s И дольше века длится день (The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years). Interestingly enough I have two novels from Kyrgyzstan on my website and both have science fiction elements. This one mainly tells the story of Burannyi Yedigei, a man who had suffered from shell shock in World War II and had managed to find a job suitable for him, at a remote railway junction in Kazakhstan, where he is a signalman. His friend and mentor has just died and Buryanni is taking him to be buried at a cemetery some thirty kilometers away. During the journey, he reminisces about his past life, the people who have lived at the junction, a Kazakh legend and, of course, his own life and that of the dead man. Meanwhile, two cosmonauts from a joint Soviet-US mission have found a planet with intelligent life on it and have travelled to the planet (without permission) and this is now causing a quandary for the Soviet and US governments. The space station from which the rockets are launched to the intermediate space station is located just forty kilometers away from the village where Buryanni works and this will affect him.