Nikolski Audiobook

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• Despite the preponderance of clues and artefacts scattered throughout the story, Dickner does not tie everything up in a neat package. He lets certain threads dangle, giving Nikolski more substance and nuance. The story lingers in the mind long after the last page has been read, leaving the reader in its strange and wonderful orbit.

  — The Gazette

• Nikolski offers a breathtakingly original perception of the world, mixing geography, cartography and longing in a language and construction both intellectually sophisticated and emotionally affecting.

  — The Globe and Mail

• Chock full of arcane detail about the sea, fish lore, antique books, travel and archaeology, Nikolski is the product of an eccentric mind propelled by an exuberant spirit.

  — Marianne Ackerman, The Walrus

• Lederhendler’s cadences and elegant vocabulary are a pleasure to read, while Dickner inexorably sweeps the reader along with the tide as the characters mature. This novel will bring a smile to your face and will be one you will want to read again.

  — Winnipeg Free Press

• One cannot say it enough: this book is the discovery of the year. . . . The humour is striking; his vision stunning.

  — Carole Beaulieu, L’actualité

• Nicolas Dickner has a limitless imagination, great erudition and an inventive pen. He is the incarnation of the future of Quebec writing — nothing less.

  — Pierre Cayouette, L’actualité

• If you are interested in the great wide world, submerse yourself immediately in this phantasmagorical, lively and fascinating novel.

  — Hugues Corriveau, Lettres québécoises

• A carefully crafted, sumptuous first novel that will restore your taste for flights of fancy and for treasure hunts in time and space.

  — Benoît Jutras, Voir

• Stylish, offbeat, poignant and perceptive.

  — David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

• Dickner excites the imagination of the reader to the point of ecstasy.

  — Le Monde

• Nicolas Dickner, who uses beautifully spare prose which can be as darkly comic as it is affecting, isn’t trying to tell a conventional story, he’s trying to tap into a very modern idea: that we need to understand that we all connect with each other somehow, family or not. And he does so impressively well.

  — Metro (UK)