TY - BOOK AU - Rytkheu, Yuri. AU - Ilona Yashbin Chavasse (tr.) TI - DREAM IN POLAR FOG SN - 9780977857616 U1 - F PY - 2011////01/01 CY - New York PB - Archipelago Books KW - Fiction KW - Chukchi KW - Chukchi- Fiction KW - Russia (Federation)-Chukotskii avtonomnyi okrug KW - Chukchi--Social life and customs KW - Rytkheu, Yuri 1930-2008 KW - Russian writer KW - Ilona Yashbin Chavasse Translater N1 - 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. 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. 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. Tragedy strikes, and wounds are healed with compassion and honesty as tensions rise and fall. 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 ER -