Fiction. Translated from the Russian by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. "A DREAM IN POLAR FOG gave me the same haunting and powerful reading experience as did Melville's travel fictions. Yuri Rytkheu is a world-class writer. Part lyrical ethnography, part uncanny adventure movie, part historical saga, part spectral love poem, this novel miraculously brings Siberia to the center of our lives" -Howard Norman.
In the 1950s Yuri Rytcheu emerged as not only a writer of considerable literary talent, but as the unique voice of a small national minority. His fiction about Chukotka and the people who inhabit the extreme north of Siberia introduced readers to their history and mythology. Rytcheu has been published in Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Denmark, and France.