{"product_id":"east-of-dreams-paperback-by-nastassja-martin-translated-from-the-french-by-sophie-lewis","title":"East of Dreams Paperback by Nastassja Martin, translated from the French by Sophie Lewis","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eNew York Review Books\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-05-19)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e304\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781681379340\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e362.88\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.49 x 14.53 x 1.65\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisplaced 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 War and in its aftermath were placed in a new and anomalous relation to government authority. These vast and remote areas, long treated as colonies, now found themselves newly neglected and newly free. The family of the Even matriarch Daria, for example, known to readers of Martin's earlier book \u003ci\u003eIn the Eye of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, decided to leave behind the urban existence enforced upon them in the Soviet period and return to the Icha forest to lead a self-sufficient life based on hunting, fishing, and gathering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe end of the Cold War brought the beginning of a new era in which the effects of global warming have proved ever more destructive. \u003ci\u003eEast of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, like \u003ci\u003eIn the Eye of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, mixes memoir and ethnography, as Martin looks at how indigenous peoples continue to take the measure of massive ongoing change. She also looks to them for new ways of understanding the relations between humankind, the human mind, and the larger world of nature, seen to exist on a vital continuum. \u003ci\u003eEast of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical anthropological epistemology for our troubled times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNastassja Martin\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eIn the Eye of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e (available from New York Review Books), \u003ci\u003eLes Ames sauvages: Face à l'Occident, la résistance d'un peuple d'Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Prix Louis Castex of the Académie Française), and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eLamont des sources\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2023 she became professor of Habitabilité de la Terre et transitions justes at the University of Paris 1\/Sorbonne, and she is the director of \u003ci\u003eTvaian\u003c\/i\u003e, a documentary based on the experiences of Daria, one of the subjects of \u003ci\u003eEast of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie R. Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor and a translator from the French and Portuguese. Her translation of Noémi Lefebvre's \u003ci\u003eBlue Self-Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for both the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2018, and her translation of Nastassja Martin's \u003ci\u003eIn the Eye of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e was a winner of the nonfiction translation prize from the French-American Foundation in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46445502038177,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781681379340","price":25.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781681379340.jpg?v=1779179474","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/east-of-dreams-paperback-by-nastassja-martin-translated-from-the-french-by-sophie-lewis","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}