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    <body><![CDATA[I actually don't know if I read the male or the female version. I'm told the difference is only one sentence; I never bothered to find out which.<br/><br/>This is a marvelous confection of a novel in the form of a dictionary (actually three dictionaries), mixing real-world history with fantasy in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3376071">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The form of this book is as interesting as its content:  It isn't necessarily linear at all.<br/><br/>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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1149585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ini adalah Kamus EDISI MASKULIN.<br/>Edisi FEMININ nyaris identik. Tetapi TIDAK sepenuhnya.<br/>Perhatikan bahwa SATU ALINEA sangat berbeda.<br/>Pilihan ada di tangan Anda.<br/><br/>Bangsa Khazar adalah metafora untuk sekelompok kecil manusia yang bertahan di antara kekuatan-kekuatan adidaya dan agama-agama besar. Pada akhir abad kesepuluh, bangsa ini hilang dari peta kebudayaan dunia. Masih banyak hal belum diketahui tentang bangsa ini.<br/><br/>Novel ini menjajaki dan menyingkap Polemik Khazar secara cerdas dan jenaka. Kamus Khazar menyajikan perpaduan yang menarik antara fiksi dan nonfiksi. Pembaca akan disuguhi berjibun anekdot khas cerita rakyat.<br/>Namun, novel ini berformat kamus mirip ensiklopedia mungil yang menggabungkan referensi silang dari tiga agama (Kristen, Islam, dan Yahudi). Layaknya membuka kamus, pembaca dapat memulai dari bagian mana saja—&quot;Kitab Merah&quot; untuk sumber Kristen, “Kitab Hijau” untuk sumber Islam, dan &quot;Kitab Kuning&quot; untuk sumber Yahudi—bukan melulu dari depan ke belakang.<br/><br/>Novel ini menantang kita untuk tidak bersikap pasif ketika membaca, tetapi berpartisipasi aktif menyatukan cerita yang terbagi-bagi.<br/>Review<br/>&quot;Pembaca yang menyukai puzzle sastrawi akan menikmati masuk ke dalam dunia magis ini dengan Pavic sebagai pemandu.&quot;<br/>—Publishers Weekly]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Word of warning:<br/>This book does not try to explain using any historical reference as why the Khazars (yes, they were real people) disappeared.  <br/>This is more like an exercise in language and form, at the expense of a story, in my opinion.  Well, there is a story in it, if you can really ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80849704">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ini adalah Kamus EDISI MASKULIN.<br/>Edisi FEMININ nyaris identik. Tetapi TIDAK sepenuhnya.<br/>Perhatikan bahwa SATU ALINEA sangat berbeda.<br/>Pilihan ada di tangan Anda.<br/><br/>Bangsa Khazar adalah metafora untuk sekelompok kecil manusia yang bertahan di antara kekuatan-kekuatan adidaya dan agama-agama besar. Pada akhir abad kesepuluh, bangsa ini hilang dari peta kebudayaan dunia. Masih banyak hal belum diketahui tentang bangsa ini.<br/><br/>Novel ini menjajaki dan menyingkap Polemik Khazar secara cerdas dan jenaka. Kamus Khazar menyajikan perpaduan yang menarik antara fiksi dan nonfiksi. Pembaca akan disuguhi berjibun anekdot khas cerita rakyat.<br/>Namun, novel ini berformat kamus mirip ensiklopedia mungil yang menggabungkan referensi silang dari tiga agama (Kristen, Islam, dan Yahudi). Layaknya membuka kamus, pembaca dapat memulai dari bagian mana saja—&quot;Kitab Merah&quot; untuk sumber Kristen, “Kitab Hijau” untuk sumber Islam, dan &quot;Kitab Kuning&quot; untuk sumber Yahudi—bukan melulu dari depan ke belakang.<br/><br/>Novel ini menantang kita untuk tidak bersikap pasif ketika membaca, tetapi berpartisipasi aktif menyatukan cerita yang terbagi-bagi.<br/>Review<br/>&quot;Pembaca yang menyukai puzzle sastrawi akan menikmati masuk ke dalam dunia magis ini dengan Pavic sebagai pemandu.&quot;<br/>—Publishers Weekly]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ingin mencoba menikmati pengalaman baru dalam membaca sebuah novel ? Silahkan mencobanya dengan membaca novel leksikon Kamus Khazar karya Milorad Pavic, profesor sejarah kesusasteraan Universitas Beograd dan salah satu penyair kenamaan Yugoslavia. Walau novel ini diberi judul “Kamus Khazar” (Dic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62071064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Dictionary of the Khazars</em> 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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32190876">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Country: Serbia<br/><br/>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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11059649">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a mind-bender! Fantastic!<br/><br/>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 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bookcrossing.com">bookcrossing.com</a>) I will do just that - compare the d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5565092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this book more than I did. The book is set up as three dictionaries - Christian, Jewish, and Islamic - and focuses on various people and events related to the Khazars, a mysterious and long-vanished civilization. Although there are interesting aspects to the presentation (perspectiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52663279">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was interested to read the book to know more about the Khazar people that to me were always a mystery. Rather than revealing the mystery the book made them more enigmatic but in a beautiful way. The story which happens at around  7th century is about the conversion of warlike and nomadic Khazars t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6482985">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was strange.  I need to go back to it.  I learned stuff that I wasn't sure was truth or fiction.  I liked the confusion and the postmodern presentation, but I'm not sure I enjoyed the book.  Maybe I should read it alongside the female edition...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is made up of three books about the same thing from different perspectives, through which you get most of the story. They're each written like a dictionary rather than in chronological, though you really can't see where it's going until the end.<br/><br/>In the preface, the author warns ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31800014">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the endless books, like Cortazar's Hopscotch... but with more ways to go about it. You can create your own dictionary every time you open it. And, yes, there is a difference between male and female versions... ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I should also mention that I've read the Female Edition of this book but can't seem to find a separate entry for it.<br/><br/>The Khazars are my favorite once-important, now-forgotten Medieval kingdom (fl. c. AD 600-800).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly amazing book. Comprised of three &quot;dictionaries&quot; each dedicated to one of the three major &quot;one god&quot; faiths. Dictionary entries are sometimes short and very much a definition, and sometimes they are stories that span several pages. Reader is free to read the entires in any ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35737782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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