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Gentlemen of the Road is a 2007 serial novel by American author Michael Chabon. It is a "swashbuckling adventure" [1] set in the khaganate of Khazaria (now southwest Russia) around AD 950. It follows two Jewish bandits who become embroiled in a rebellion and a plot to restore a displaced Khazar prince to the throne.
- Michael Chabon
- 2007
Sep 30, 2008 · Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure. Paperback – Big Book, September 30, 2008. Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books.
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- Michael Chabon
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Oct 30, 2007 · From Publishers Weekly. Starred Review. Pulitzer Prize winner–Chabon (The Yiddish Policemen's Union) recreates 10th-century Khazaria, the fabled kingdom of wild red-haired Jews on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, in this sprightly historical adventure.
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Oct 30, 2007 · 14,187 ratings1,877 reviews. Two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates are variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars.
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Dec 11, 2008 · Michael Chabon. Follow. Gentlemen of the Road Kindle Edition. by Michael Chabon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.2 509 ratings. See all formats and editions. A spellbinding yarn set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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Dec 9, 2020 · Chabon, Michael. Publication date. 2008. Topics. Caucasus -- History -- Fiction, Caucasus. Publisher. Leicester : Ulverscroft. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. xiv, 205 pages (large print) : 24 cm.
About Gentlemen of the Road. #1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE“A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure.”—The Washington Post Book World They’re an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex ...
