Dictionary of the Khazars

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Milorad Pavic

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English

Vintage
23 October 1989

Fiction & Literature; Reference works

Series: Vintage International

A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylvania between the seventh and ninth centuries. Eschewing conventional narrative and plot, this lexicon novel combines the dictionaries of the world's three major religions with entries that leap between past and future, featuring three unruly wise men, a book printed in poison ink, suicide by mirrors, a chimerical princess, a sect of priests who can infiltrate one's dreams, romances between the living and the dead, and much more.

By: Milorad Pavic
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Vintage International ed Male ed
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 123mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780679724612
ISBN 10: 0679724613
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 23 October 1989
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Dictionary of the Khazars (M)

All its delights...the structural novelty and the comic inventiveness of the imagery...[are] an ebullient and generous celebration of the reading experience. -- The New York Times Book Review As with Borges or Garcia Marquez...[Pavic] knows how to support his textual legerdemain with superb portrait miniatures and entrancing anecdotes. -- Washington Post Book World Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric