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1: Excellent book.
This is an excellent book. Very touching. I would highly recommend for everyone who likes classic literature...
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2: Another sad story
A wooden translation hopefully doesn't reflect the nature of the original material. The story itself is a creative combination of history, sci-fi and social realism. In the end this reader would have preferred more sci-fi and less realism. How often do we need to repeat the telling of our personal and social miseries before we get wise to the futility of complaint?
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3: A Masterpiece
I absolutely loved this novel, although I am not a student of Soviet history and have never been to Kazakhstan. It has a majestic sense of time and place and deals with timeless themes: love and family, tradition and change, and the intrusion of government and history into the life of ordinary folk. Mostly, it is about the heroism of ordinary people, and the great courage it sometimes takes to simply survive. A novel of great scope from a great humanist. One of my favorites.
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4: The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years
It came on time in great shape.
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5: Want to escape to the asian steppe?
I would have considered the author a dissident if I would not have been told in the Introduction that the novel did pass the soviet censure. So what a surprise to listen such a critic but subtle voice of the soviet system. There is also an amazing sense of freedom, for the author joyfully swims between tales of Kazakhs traditions - fantastic -, and a sci-fi story, whose suspense drags the reader all along the book and whose fate leaves you a bitter but unfortunately real taste of human nature. Love and tragedy are not forgotten. This is an amazing little piece of artwork, original in many ways. Recommended for a two-week escape to the asian steppe.
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