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    <![CDATA[Knopf Canada&#8217;s newest Face of Fiction is Nicolas Dickner, author of a critically lauded, award-winning literary sensation in Quebec, a bestseller when published in 2005. <br/><br/>Get ready for the joyride that is Nikolski.<br/>&#8220;One cannot say it enough: this book is the discovery of the year. . . . The humour is striking; his vision stunning.&#8221; <br/>Carole Beaulieu, <em>L&#8217;actualité</em><br/><br/>Awards for the French-language edition: <br/>Prix des libraires 2006<br/>Prix littéraire des collégiens 2006<br/>Prix Anne-Hébert 2006 (Best first book)<br/>Prix Printemps des Lecteurs&#8211;Lavinal <br/><br/>Spring 1989. Three young people&#8211;Noah, Joyce and an unnamed narrator&#8211;leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal, each on a voyage of self-discovery, dealing with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree. <br/><br/>With humour, charm and the sure touch of a born storyteller, Nicolas Dickner crafts a tale that shows the surprising links between garbage-obsessed archeologists, 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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Nikolski, Dickner tracks the lives of three wandering characters whose lives cross--and who share a family tree--but who do not really interact with each other to any great extent.  The narrative jumps quickly between the various characters; most chapters are no more than a couple pages.  This le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55281337">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An adult book--I haven't read one of these in a while!  Although there wasn't much plot to speak of, I found this book of 3 intertwining stories with quirky characters set in Montreal fun and interesting.  The various stories follow an unnamed narrator who works at a dusty bookstore, a nomad Noah wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79612076">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting premise. I think exposition is something that needs to be handled carefully. Think of Robert Conrad, and how in Heart of Darkness, it too a whole chapter to describe a Sunset. Its not that I have a problem with exposition, but it can tend to bog down a reader and make the subject being d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66571241">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this novel though I find it difficult to neatly summarize.  It's three different stories about three different people--an unnamed male narrator who works in a used bookstore, a young man who leaves his mother and their vagrant lifestyle to go to university, and Joyce, a young woman ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57091374">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, I felt this was an excellent novel.  The characters were developed to the point that you could clearly imagine the journeys they took and you almost felt you were there with them. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Canada (Montreal)/Alaska. De merkwaardige belevenissen van Joyce (met een familiaal piratenverleden), de student Noah en de 'verteller' vinden een raakpunt in de figuur van Jonas Doucet.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&#147;Mon nom n'a pas d'importance&#148;, signale d'emblée le narrateur de <em>Nikolski</em>, récit réjouissant d'un garçon de 33 ans. &#147;Ma mère était morte (&#8230;) me laissant le monde entier sur les épaules&#148;, poursuit cet irrésistible personnage dont le monde se résume à un &#147;géniteur évanescent&#148;, un compas de marine déboussolé qui pointe vers Nikolski, &#147;minuscule village de 36 personnes dans les Aléoutiennes&#148; et un emploi dans une librairie d'occasion du quartier de la Petite Italie, à Montréal. Pendant 10 ans &#8211; de 1989 au 31 décembre 1999 &#8211; on suivra les pérégrinations de ce jeune homme ainsi que celles de deux autres personnages tout aussi atypiques : Noah, qui a grandi dans une roulotte sillonnant les Prairies, et Joyce, &#147;arrière-arrière-arrière-petite-fille d'un flibustier&#148; qui rêve de devenir pirate.  <p> Il est difficile de résumer cette histoire d'errance et d'appartenance de Nicolas Dickner. Son charme tient aux &#147;trois destins éparpillés&#148; qui se frôleront sans vraiment se connaître et qui ignoreront toujours le lien intime qui les unit. Pas d'introspection narcissique dans ce <em>road novel</em> où les drames sont ramenés à leurs justes proportions face à la complexité de la planète que l'on parcourt avec le narrateur, de Vancouver au Nicaragua, en passant par la Saskatchewan, la Basse-Côte-Nord, la République dominicaine et, bien sûr, Nikolski. Du même auteur, on voudra aussi lire <em>L'Encyclopédie du petit cercle</em>, recueil de nouvelles récompensé par les prix Adrienne-Choquette et Jovette-Bernier. --<em>Monique Roy</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you can read French, read this book!  It is unlike any you have read in a long time, I promise.  Funny and poignant and mysterious.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really like this book.  i just couldn't get interested in it.  also I thought the setup was a little confusing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a delightful surprise.  It had me at &quot;My name is unimportant&quot;.  ha. Strange story but perfectly engaging. Shelagh Rogers interviewed the author on CBC's The Next Chapter today.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/">http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/</a>]]></body>
    
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