Landscape Painted with Tea

Milorad Pavić is the most famous Serbian writer, storyteller, and mystifier, a lover of labyrinths and charades, quirky metaphors, and strange tales. "Landscape Painted with Tea" is a crossword novel, a dream novel, a brilliant example of magical realism. Its hero, an unsuccessful dreamer architect, sets off in search of his father, who did not return from World War II. The journey turns into long wanderings "more in time than in space." In the plot, reality and dream, history and modernity, parables about saints and tales of countless temptations of the devil intertwine in a whimsical way.