Nikolski

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Winner of CBC Canada Reads 2010Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for TranslationIntricately plotted and shimmering with originality, Nikolski charts the curious and u nexpected courses of personal migration, and shows how they just might eventually lead us to home.Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their personal songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal, each on a voyage of self-discovery, dealing with the mishaps of hearbreak and the twisted brances of their shared family tree. With humour, charm and the sure touch of a born storyteller, Nicolas Dickner crafts a tale that shows the surprising links between garbage-obsessed archaeologists, pirates past and present, earthquake victims, sea snakes, several very large tuna fish, an illiterate deep-sea diver, a Commodore 64, a mysterious book with no cover and a broken compass whose needle obstinately points to the Aleutian village of Nikolski. Show more