The Box for Writing Supplies

Milorad Pavić is a Serbian prose writer, whom critics have dubbed the first writer of the 21st century.

The story of "The Box for Writing Supplies" begins at the moment of ending. It is a riddle novel, a labyrinth novel, into... which you sink deeper with each chapter. Inside the box — in postcards, announcements, recipes, manuscripts, torn pages from books, film, and photographs — is captured the complex love story of two extraordinary personalities.

In the box for writing supplies intertwines the fate of an unknown French woman, who can read scents and buys the most expensive fur coat in Paris twice completely for free, and a young man who is searching for a girl with the female version of the "Dictionary of the Khazars" and has forgotten Serbian after seven lessons. Their relationship is measured by love hours, which measure the duration of the love act. Sometimes one or several drops of time fall together, sometimes one drop of love time is larger, and the next smaller…
This is a wordless tale about what love is.