Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 338 p. Audience: General/trade.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 338 p. Audience: General/trade.

First Edition, Second Printing (Jan 1989). Published by Alfred A. Knopf,

First Edition, Second Printing (Jan 1989). Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover. Orange stained page ends. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and small tears.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

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New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a

New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($19.95). 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 copy, appears new and unread. 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 accountsChristian, 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, literary historian, and professor whose career spanned poetry, short stories, and experimental novels; this, his first novel, became his international breakthrough and 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).