false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238384357m/1039321.jpg 321566 36 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. 1025689 book 1984 Hazarski rečnik: Roman leksikon u 100.000 reči total:470|5:257|4:124|3:66|2:18|1:5| 470 2020 817 62 5 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 03:55:39 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 03:58:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sun Jul 22 09:01:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 09:10:18 -0700 2007
This is a marvelous confection of a novel in the form of a dictionary (actually three dictionaries), mixing real-world history with fantasy in ...more...]]> 4 1 true false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu May 10 14:52:42 -0700 2007 Thu May 10 14:58:21 -0700 2007
This is a completely fictional account of the disappearance of an entire culture. The land of the Khazars was geographically located at the intersection of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 18:40:14 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 00:42:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Sep 06 12:51:19 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 18:34:30 -0800 2009 Dictionary of the Khazars attempts to recreate the culture and history of the Khazar people from fragmented and obscure records, organized as a three-part encyclopedia. The Khazars were a fictional culture in eastern Europe in the middle ages practicing a unique religion, of which there is no histo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 26 20:08:23 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 09 13:54:53 -0700 2008
I bought this in 1989 and have dipped into it now and then, but decided that now was the time to read it through. Dictionary of the Khazars is a novel in encyclopedic form. It is post-diluvean, fragmented, and, though internally logical, follows dream-logic. Meanings are o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 03 02:03:50 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 02:08:50 -0700 2007
Of course I read the book back to front (like you do) and not jumping and cross-checking entries from the different parts of the book. After obtaining my own copy (the one I read was part of a bookring at bookcrossing.com) I will do just that - compare the d...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Sep 02 06:40:21 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 13:15:30 -0700 2007 The premise of the book is a triple narrative: a Catholic, a Muslim and a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Aug 19 05:11:19 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 05:11:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Aug 17 09:34:28 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 15:49:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 30 23:29:45 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 23:30:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Apr 14 12:15:11 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 12:17:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 06 09:48:08 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 14:35:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 02:27:14 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 07:17:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 16:08:11 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 16:08:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 06:42:14 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 06:42:42 -0700 2008
In the preface, the author warns ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 26 17:03:28 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 17:11:31 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Thu Aug 20 10:37:56 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 10:49:33 -0700 2009
The Khazars are my favorite once-important, now-forgotten Medieval kingdom (fl. c. AD 600-800).]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 19 21:35:54 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 18:29:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Mar 13 12:37:54 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 22:01:00 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1039321