East of Dreams
$39.98
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2026
Summary
Displaced after the fall of the Soviet Union, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history.
The work of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin has taken her to Alaska, where she worked with the indigenous Gwich’in people, and across the Bering Strait to Kamchatka, where she lived and studied among the Even community. Both regions, both peoples, had been on the front line of the Cold…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681379340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681379341 |
| Author: | Nastassja Martin, Sophie Lewis |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 146mm |
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Critics Review
“In East of Dreams, Nastassja Martin offers readers a literary pleasure and poses one of the major political questions of our time, reexamining colonialism and the foreseeable as well as clear-and-present consequences of climate change: Does the notion of ‘capitalism’ encompass all aspects of modernity?” —Marc Lebiez, En attendant Nadeau“Nastassja Martin’s East of Dreams brings Claude Lévi-Strauss’s masterpiece, Tristes Tropiques, immediately to mind.” —Pascal Ruffenach, La Croix
About The Author
Nastassja Martin
Nastassja Martin is a French author and anthropologist who has studied the Gwich’in people of Alaska and the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Her books include In the Eye of the Wild, Les Âmes sauvages — Face l’Occident, la résistance d’un peuple d’Alaska (winner of the Prix Louis Castex of the Académie Française), and Lamont des sources. In 2023, she became professor of Habitabilité de la Terre et transitions justes at the University of Paris 1/Sorbonne. She is also the director of Tvaian, a documentary based on the experiences of Daria, one of the subjects of East of Dreams.
Sophie R. Lewis is an editor and a translator from the French and Portuguese. Her translation of Noemi Lefebvre’s Blue Self-Portrait was short-listed for both the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2018. Her translation of Nastassja Martin’s In the Eye of the Wild won the nonfiction translation prize from the French-American Foundation in 2022.
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