A Woman in the Polar Night

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to 'read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content', but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies... But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life. This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime.

General

Imprint:	Pushkin Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Pushkin Classics
Release date:	December 2023
Authors:	Christiane Ritter
Translators:	Jane Degras
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-80533-089-9
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-80533-089-6
Barcode:	9781805330899

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