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