Milorad Pavic, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-394-57183-6
Written in Serbo-Croatian, first published in Yugoslavia, already a bestseller in Germany and France, this whimsical ``lexicon'' can be read on many levels. Pavic, professor of Serbian literature at the University of Belgrade, cares passionately...
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Milorad Pavic, Author, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Translator Vintage Books USA $16 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-72461-2
Available in slightly differing ``male'' and ``female'' editions, the narrative purports to be the historical record of the Khazars, a fictional Indo-European tribe that vanished in the 10th century. ``Pavic is a 20th-century Scheherazade,''...
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Milorad Pavic, Author, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Translator Knopf Publishing Group $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42085-9
Like his cleverly designed Dictionary of the Khazars , which was printed in both male and female versions, Serbian writer Pavic's lyrical and brooding new work is inventively structured. It consists of two surrealistic and remarkably beautiful...
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Milorad Pavic, Author, Christina Pribchevich-Zoric, Author, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Translator Dufour Editions $24.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1323-2
Acclaimed Serbian novelist Pavic--best known here for his Dictionary of the Khazars--offers another nonlinear novel that the reader is invited to experience in multiple ways. The book is divided into 21 chapters, or ""keys,"" which are meant to...
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