Niko
Six-year-old Niko Karam's world changes completely when his mother is killed by a car bomb during the Lebanese Civil War and he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Montreal North. While his father keeps moving without him, trying to scrape together enough money for them to be a family again, Niko resists settling into his new life, convinced that his father will be returning at any moment to take him away.
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Boys > Fiction. Canadian fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Lebanese > Canada > Fiction. Immigrants > Canada > Fiction. Montréal (Québec) > Fiction. |
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Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781550653113
- Physical Description 235 pages.
- Publisher Montreal : Vehicule Press, [2011]
- Copyright ©2011
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General Note: | "Esplanade Books". |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 19.95 |
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Summary
Niko : A Novel
Six-year-old Niko Karaam has never known a life outside civil war. He rarely leaves his parents' small apartment, and from its small balcony he listens to the world outside tumble down one building at a time. But after a car bomb kills his pregnant mother, Niko is thrust into a much wider and confusing world without apartments or balconies, as he and his father Antoine embark upon the open seas on an impossible international adventure in search of a new place to call home. Throughout a twelve-year odyssey that leads them across seven countries, young Niko will have to choose between his swollen faith in an increasingly God-like and unreliable Antoine, and the pragmatic, hard-nosed alternatives that will ultimately lead to a better future. Swiftly paced, poignantly moving, and beautifully imagined, Niko is the powerful epic story of what it takes to survive after war, of what to hold dear and what to leave behind in a world that won't let you have it all.