1990; "Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric"; Alfred A. Knopf publishers, New York; "First American Edition" stated; very good conditon of book and dust jacket; larger hardbound with red and black boards and small gilt lettering on spine; very decorative dust jacket.
 
Plot -
"Landscape Painted with Tea" 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 2,000 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..."
 
Author -
Milorad Pavić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Павић, pronounced [mîlɔ̝raːd pǎːv̞it͡ɕ]; 15 October 1929 – 30 November 2009) was a Serbian novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary historian. Born in Belgrade in 1929, he published many poems, short stories and novels during his lifetime, the most famous of which was the Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). Upon its release, it was hailed as "the first novel of the 21st century." Pavić's works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He was vastly popular in Europe and in South America, and was deemed "one of the most intriguing writers from the beginning of the 21st century." He won numerous prizes in Serbia and in the former Yugoslavia, and was mentioned several times as a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Belgrade in 2009.