Packet 7: Tossup 5

A musician in this novel uses “shaitan’s fingering,” a passage only playable with an eleventh finger or a tail. A swordmaker in this novel destroys a 1691 book by using its pages to skim fat off soup, though a surviving fragment compares readers and writers to men binding a puma. A princess in this novel sleeps with letters written on her eyelids and samples seven types of (10[1])salt. Dream hunters who eat the ku fruit influence a “polemic” in this novel held before a khagan. Avram Brankovich, Yusuf Masudi, and Samuel Cohen title sections (10[1])of this novel, which uses superscripted crosses, crescents, and stars to mark Christian, Muslim, and Jewish “sources.” (10[3])This (10[1])1984 (10[1])“lexicon novel” (10[4])was published in (10[1])“male” (10[2])and “female” editions that differed by one paragraph. For 10 points, a medieval Turkic people titles what novel (10[1])by Serbian author Milorad Pavić? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[6])

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