In his later years, Pavic experimented with digital formats, writing "interactive" novels meant for CD-ROMs. He embraced the future, but Dictionary of the Khazars remains firmly rooted in the past—the smell of old paper, the weight of the tome, the tactile joy of jumping from entry to entry.
Long before developers coded clickable links, Pavić designed a book that functioned exactly like a website. The novel chronicles the mass conversion of the Khazars, a nomadic steppe people, through three perspective lenses: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish. milorad pavic hazarski recnik pdf