Dictionary of the Khazars
1983
First Published
4.17
Average Rating
340
Number of Pages
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.
Avg Rating
4.17
Number of Ratings
7,545
5 STARS
50%
4 STARS
27%
3 STARS
15%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Milorad Pavic
Author · 20 books
Milorad Pavić was a Serbian poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian. Pavić wrote five novels which were translated into English: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, Landscape Painted With Tea, Inner Side of the Wind, Last Love in Constantinople and Unique Item as well as many short stories not in English translation.
