The Chukchi Bible by Rytkheu, Yuri

The Chukchi Bible (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780981987316)

Vendor: Yuri Rytkheu
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Format: Paperback
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The Chukchi Bible by Rytkheu, Yuri

The Chukchi Bible

$16.00
The Chukchi Bible by Rytkheu, Yuri

The Chukchi Bible

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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By the celebrated author of A Dream in Polar Fog, a collection of the myths and stories of Yuri Rytkheu's own family that is at once a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the northern shores of the Bering Sea and a beautiful cautionary tale rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters: Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and Rytkheu's own grandfather, fated to be an intrepid traveler, far-ranging whaler, living ethnographic exhibit, and the last shaman of Uelen. The Chukchi Bible moves through vast Arctic tundra, sea, and sky - and to places deep within ourselves--introducing readers, in vivid prose, to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people.

Author: Yuri Rytkheu
ISBN-10: 0981987311
ISBN-13: 9780981987316
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 04/29/2011
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 08/18/2011 pg. 56
By Yuri Rytkheu
By Yuri Rytkheu
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Yuri Rytkheu was born in Uelen, a village in the Chukotka region of Siberia. He sailed the Bering Sea, worked on Arctic geological expeditions, and hunted in Arctic waters, in addition to writing over a dozen novels and collections of stories. His novel A Dream in Polar Fog was a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Notable Book in 2006. In the late 1950s, Rytkheu emerged not only as a great literary talent, but as the unique voice of a small national minority - the Chukchi people, a shrinking community residing in one of the most majestic and inhospitable environments on earth.

Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse translated Rytkheu's novel A Dream in Polar Fog. Born in the former Soviet Union, she now lives in London with her husband and daughter.

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