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A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu5/23/2023 ![]() Rytkheu’s empathy, humor, and provocative voice guide us across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveal all the complexity and beauty of a vanishing world. A Dream in Polar Fog was to be my first published translation. Tragedy strikes, and wounds are healed with compassion and honesty as tensions rise and fall. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE I first met Yuri Rytkheu in the fall of 2004, over the phone. ![]() Over time, John comes to know his new companions as a real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. ![]() It is the story of John MacLennan, a Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded on the northeastern tip of Siberia and the story of the Chukchi community that adopts this wounded stranger and teaches him to live as a true human being. A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic chronicle of the people of Chukotka, and a politically and emotionally charged adventure story. ![]()
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