Nikolski: A Novel by Nicolas DicknerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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 who flees her small town in search of a long-lost relative (and modern day pirate), who ends up becoming a tech pirate herself. All three characters spend time in Montreal, have an absent parent, become fixated with travel, cartography, and/or pirates.
These three characters are also connected in other ways though only the reader realizes it and that makes their brief interactions all the more poignant. The writing, in translation, is both beautiful and engaging and I'm tempted to read this over again at some point to think more about how its parts relate.
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4 comments:
I don't plan on posting reviews here regularly but I thought I should spread the word about this book because I did enjoy it (and that's why they gave me a copy in the first place so I could promote it).
Julia, you're getting this book next because I have to send you back that other one. You can pass it on to Julie next.
I think that's a great idea, did you think about posting the review at Amazon, B&N or maybe even Powell's (you could win!)
I posted the Erec Rex review to Powell's...I could use that $20!
Good idea! I'll get on that.
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