Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words - Hardcover

Dictionary of the Khazars: A lexicon novel in 100,000 words (First British Edition)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. First British edition. First printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardbound. Fine in a very good jacket. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. Jacket has a few small closed tears and wear at edges. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Christina Pribcevic Zoric. 8vo. pp. viii + 339 with black & white illustrations and chapter headings, some color outlines; colored fore-edge and decorated endpapers. Original maroon cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A tight, clean cop. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. A novel in the form of a fictional lexicon that reconstructs the vanished Khazar people's religion and history through three contradictory accounts-Christian, Islamic, and Jewish. (The Khazars themselves were real, a Turkic people whose empire thrived between the 7th and 10th centuries and whose rulers are thought to have converted to Judaism.) Milorad Pavic (1929-2009) was a Serbian writer; this was his first novel, an international breakthrough that remains his most famous work. His later works published in the United States in English translation were Landscape Painted with Tea (Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), The Inner Side of the Wind (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), Damascene (Northwestern University Press, 1998), and Unique Item (Northwestern University Press, 2004). This novel was published in a male edition and a female edition. This is the Male edition. Artikel-Nr. Fiction-Pavic-Male

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