The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

A line from Pasternak’s poem, which becomes the novel’s title, emphasizes the scale of the author’s plan: the past, present, and future merge into the Eternal. The core of the plot is the description of the funeral of an old railway worker at a remote junction in the steppe. And around this ordinary event grows a multi-layered picture of life and of three families at a wayside station, and even of the country as a whole...