Milorad

2018 · 9788664571227 — Dereta 2018. paperback. NEW. By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller Dictionary of the Khazars Landscape Painted with Tea Milorad Pavic’s novel is a tale of mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in Belgrade and his search for his father an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II. The truth about his fate – some of it set in motion 2000 years ago and some of it by the Nazis – is raveled in the history and secrets of Mount Athos the most ancient of all monasteries perched atop its inaccessible mountain on the Aegean. “I wrote Landscape Painted with Tea employing a favorite and long-known manner of reading which however has not been used in literature – the crossword puzzle. The novel can be read down or across inside it you can find a heroine that falls in love with the reader and her fate differs depending on whether the reader is male and female. Reading and gender Jasmina Mihajlovic’s term determines whether the book will have a happy ending or end in tragedy. “Landscape Painted with Tea or novel for crossword puzzle lovers actually a crossword-puzzle novel can be read across and in that case the emphasis is on the love story or down in that case the emphasis is on the characters of the novel. The heroine of the book falls in love with the reader.” Milorad Pavic Dereta paperback