Fiction. Translated from the Russian. A DREAM IN POLAR FOG is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic chronicle of the Chukchi people, and a politically and emotionally charged Arctic adventure story. "Rarely has humanity's relationship to nature been so beautifully and vividly depicted. A DREAM IN POLAR FOG is both elegant and exciting and also serves as a living anthropology of a gone world. It accomplishes everything a novel should"--Neal Pollack.
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.