When the Whales Leave

¿[Yuri Rytkheüs] deep emotional attachment to this landscape of ice (today melting away under global warming forces) makes every sentence seem a poetic revelation.¿ ¿ANNIE PROULX

About the author

Yuri Rytkheu (1930¿2008) 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. The English translation of his book 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.

Product details

• Authors: Yuri Rytkheu, Rytkheu Yuri
• Assisted by: Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse (Translation), Chavasse Ilona Yazhbin (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2020
• EAN: 9781571311313
• ISBN: 978-1-57131-131-3
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 204 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Seedbank
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fairy and Folk tales, FICTION / Indigenous, Category fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Indigenous / General