Nikolski is a novel by Canadian writer Nicolas Dickner.
[1] The original French edition was a nominee for the 2005 Governor General's Award for French fiction, won the Prix Anne-Hébert in 2006, and won the Prix littéraire des collégiens, a prize awarded by Quebecois post-secondary students, in 2006.
[1] The novel's story is set in Montreal and revolves around three seemingly disconnected characters (Noah, Joyce and an unnamed narrator) whose lives eventually intersect in the city's Plateau neighbourhood.
The title derives from one of the novel's recurring motifs, a broken compass which consistently points to the small village of Nikolski, Alaska instead of the Magnetic North Pole.
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