And longer than a century lasts the day... The Stamp of Cassandra

This edition includes two works by the classic of Russian and Kyrgyz literature Chingiz Aitmatov, defining different facets of his creative path: the novels «And longer than a century lasts the day...» and «The Stamp of Cassandra». «And longer than... a century lasts the day...» is a complex collage woven from a historical parable, cosmic science fiction, and a story about the tragic fate of people living in the endless steppes. «The Stamp of Cassandra» is a realistic fantasy on the theme of creating the «artificial human». Both works are united not only by the author's unique style, which combines elements of Western literature and Eastern epic, but also by a reference to eternal themes of the confrontation between good and evil, nature and humanity, the past and the future.