Landscape Painted with Tea

By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller Dictionary of the Khazars Landscape Painted with Tea Milorad Pavic's second 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.