The Chukchi Bible

Author:   Yuri Rytkheu ,  Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Publisher:   Archipelago Books
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9780981987316


Pages:   354
Publication Date:   29 April 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Yuri Rytkheu ,  Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Publisher:   Archipelago Books
Imprint:   Archipelago Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9780981987316


ISBN 10:   0981987311
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   29 April 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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<br> Yuri writes with passion, strength, and beauty of a world we others have never understood. A splendid book. <br>- Farley Mowat<br><br> This story by Yuri Rytkheu is a love song to human survival, both physical and metaphysical, a true story about change and endurance, about the Essential way to live in the world, about the eternal story while recounting the fleeting one. <br>- Gioia Timpanelli


A last, ringing testament to Rytkheu's people: a reworking of their myths, their history, and his own ancestry, in a poetic act of reclamation. . . Rich in the texture and detail of past lives.<b><i> The New York Review of Books </i></b> Breathtaking, wild, and imaginative . . . so clear, surefooted, vivid and confident . . . They describe the marking of the seasons the breaking ice, changing light, frost and drift . . . the training of shamans; the passing on of rituals and healing skills. <b><i> The Los Angeles Times </i></b> An extended epitaph inscribed on the tombstone of a small nationality. . . . [with] an indigenous genesis myth, a fall from grace and fratricide legends, a Chukchi Deuteronomy, and a prophet-like figure. . . . [with] a heightened sense of nostalgia and . . . the full range of Rytkheu's style, from the lyrical prose of his myths and legends to the down-to-earth idiom of European whalers and merchants. <b><i> World Literature Today </i></b> This story by Yuri Rytkheu is a love song to human survival, both physical and metaphysical, a true story about change and endurance, about the Essential way to live in the world, about the eternal story while recounting the fleeting one. <b> Gioia Timpanelli </b> Yuri writes with passion, strength, and beauty of a world we others have never understood. A splendid book. <b> Farley Mowat</b>


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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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