Qikiqtarjuaq(the thirst of the rose to drink the sunrays)
Explore the poetic world of Qikiqtarjuaq—the thirst of the rose to drink the sunrays—in this curated book list. Featuring Milorad Pavic's mind-bending *Dictionary of the Khazars*, alongside gothic true crime in *Dead Men Do Tell Tales* and the chilling *The Bloody Countess*, these titles weave myth, mystery, and obsession. Dive into literary fiction and dark histories that quench an otherworldly thirst.
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Dictionary of the Khazars (M)
by Milorad Pavic
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.
