Onde havia um homem, lá havia também seu túmulo à espera. Em um reino distante vivia Noiva Neva, uma jovem bonita e toda sorrisos, assim como um dia de verão, mais justa que a estrela da manhã. Ao encontrar as chaves perdidas de uma princesa, a jovem tem a chance de mudar seu futuro, mas decide tomar o destino com as próprias mãos. Um cavaleiro magnífico, um amor proibido e um casamento esperam a bela Noiva Neva. E um padrinho poderoso e inusitado soltará sua ira em todos aqueles que tentarem impedir essa união. Um conto de fadas croata.
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Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children. She started writing poetry, diaries and essays rather early but her works were not published until the beginning of the 20th century. Her book Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), published in 1916, is among the most popular today.In the book Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats. It was this that earned her comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen and Tolkien who also wrote completely new stories but based in some elements of real mythology. Brlić-Mažuranić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. However, she never won the prize due to the fact that, in her time, the prize was not accustomed to be given to women. read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Brlić-Maž...
