Nikolski

Selected as the 2010 CBC Canada Reads Winner!Awards for the French-language edition: Prix des libraires 2006Prix littéraire des collégiens 2006Prix Anne-Hébert 2006 (Best first book)Prix Printemps des Lecteurs--Lavinal Intricately plotted and shimmering with originality, Nikolski charts the curious and unexpected courses of personal migration, and shows how they just might eventually lead us to home. In the spring of 1989, three young people, born thousands of miles apart, each cut themselves adrift from their birthplaces and set out to discover what -- or who -- might anchor them in their lives. They each leave almost everything behind, carrying with them only a few artefacts of their lives so far -- possessions that have proven so formative that they can't imagine surviving without them -- but also the accumulated memories of their own lives and family histories.Noah, who was taught to read...