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Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position betwen the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. Skip to content. The World of the Khazars. Author : Peter B. The World of the Khazars Book Review:. The Jews of Khazaria. The Jews of Khazaria Book Review:. The Thirteenth Tribe. The Thirteenth Tribe Book Review:.

The Khazars. The Search for the Mythical State of Innocence. Author : Ivan Cvetanovic, Ph. Making a Nation Breaking a Nation. Landscape Painted with Tea. You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Can you help donate a copy? When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission.

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A book can be a vineyard watered with rain or a vineyard watered with wine. This one, like all dictionaries, is of the latter variety. Especially if one takes into account that reading is, generally speaking, a dubious proposition. When used, a book can be cured or killed in the reading. It can be changed, fattened, or raped. Its course can be re-channeled; it is constantly losing something; you drop letters through the lines, pages through your fingers, as new ones keep growing before your eyes, like cabbage.

If you put it down tomorrow, you may find it like a stove gone cold, with no hot supper waiting for you any more. Moreover, today people do not have enough solitude to be able to read books, even dictionaries, without harm.

But to this too there is an end. A book is like a scale—it tilts first to the right until it tilts to the left, forever. Its weight thus shifts from the right hand to the left, and something similar has happened in the head—-from the realm of hope, thoughts have moved to the realm of memory, and everything is over.

The reader's ear may perhaps retain some of the saliva from the writer's mouth, words borne by the wind with a grain of sand at the bottom. Over the years, voices will settle around that grain, as in a shell, and one day it will turn into a pearl, into black goat-cheese, or into a void when the ears shut like a shell.

And least of all does this depend on the sand. The form of this book is as interesting as its content: It isn't necessarily linear at all. 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 this is an encyclopedia entry by entry relating each religion's perspective on which of them converted the heathen race. Dreams and the supernatural are casually woven into this intricately self-referential work. It reads a lot like Arabian Nights, and I mean that in the best of ways.

I would've given it four stars for my enjoyment level, but then I sat and thought, how on earth could this book be improved?

There is no way it could be better. My enjoyment comes from a mild inability to concentrate on one thing at a time, and a terrible need to finish a good book right away when I've started it, and these are the enjoyment-limiting things I encountered, neither of which are the book's fault, unless, of course, it's by virtue of the fact that this is a fine, fine book which I did not want to be stopped from finishing in one go.

Told in multiple ways, the writing slips from narrative to nonsensical, fact to myth, legend to fantasy in the same breath, but everything fits together so perfectly that it is never a strain to read; you're led - or, sometimes, dragged - by the hand through the repeating circles of characters, concepts and tales, which round out progressively to something far greater than the sum of their parts, with a final tying of its knots coming only in the appendices.

The whole novel seems to be like a dream conjured up by Pavic for us readers. Pavic meanwhile is waiting for us, but as is the case with the real world, I don't think we can achieve it but just get one perspective.