‘A graceful, moving story of cultures in collision – and concord – in the far north.’ Kirkus Review

‘Gave me the same haunting and powerful reading experience as reading Melville's travel fictions. Yuri Rytkheu is a world-class writer.’ Howard Norman, author of The Haunting of L

‘Rarely has humanity's relationship to nature been so beautifully and vividly depicted ... It recalls the best work of Jack London and Herman Melville, and it is a novel in the grandest sense of the word.’ Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad

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