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Gentlemen of the Road is a 2007 serial novel by American author Michael Chabon. It is a "swashbuckling adventure" 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
29 lug 2010 · Part 1 of the Gentlemen of the Road documentary series, directed by Fred & Nick. Available as part of the Sigh No More: Deluxe Edition, released 6th December. More details at...
- 13 min
- 562K
- Mumford & Sons
9 dic 2020 · Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can - as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money.
30 ott 2007 · “The Gentlemen of the Road” is a buddy adventure epic set in the Caucasus Mountains region in 950 AD, with a lapsed Jew named Zelikman and an African named Amram as the titular duo. It is an adventure story through and through, but it is written in a literary style.
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- Hardcover
30 set 2008 · Michael Chabon's "Gentlemen of the Road" begins in a 10th century caravansery with particularly choice insults at first attributed to a bird of scandalous vocabulary, which are quickly traced to a scarecrow of a man.
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- Michael Chabon
- $14.19
- Del Rey
30 ott 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.
28 ott 2007 · In Michael Chabon’s gleeful new novel, a pair of 10th-century soldiers of fortune scramble up and down the trails and gorges of the Caucasus, engaging in a brawl or a boondoggle as regularly as...
