Landscape Painted with Tea

“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 Mihajlović’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 Pavić Translated from the Serbian by Kristina Pribićević – Zorić