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.
