This edition includes two works of the classic Russian and Kyrgyz literature Chingiz Aitmatov, defining different facets of his creative path: the novels "And the day lasts longer than a century..." and "The Brand of Cassandra"."And a day lasts longer than a century..." is a complex collage, woven from a historical parable, space fiction and a story about the tragic fate of people who live in the endless steppes."Brand of Cassandra" - a realistic fantasy on the theme of creating an "artificial person".Both works are united not only by the author's special style, which combines elements of Western literature and Eastern epics, but also by an appeal to the eternal themes of the confrontation between good and evil, nature and man, the past and the future.