Preface:

 

The book, whose pages you have just begun to turn, was born and raised on the foundations of a tender love of a poor young man, brought up on a bank of a quiet river,for a beautiful girl, his princess Anna. Her father, a greedy, pushy and arrogant merchant,whose hands and thoughts were always in somebody’s wallet, and his heart deep in a pot of gold, did everything he could to remove him from her heart and soul,

This young man who

Coloured

In light

Of the moonlit river

Made of smiles,

Bursting with

Poems, letters,

Mysterious waters,

Embraces and kisses,

Dives into the

Secret chambers

Of his beloved princess.

 

      Their desire to make their dreams true was stronger than the obstacles put up by her

father who wanted her to marry a rich businesssman’s son... stronger than anything but a

curse...

    The story told in this book is just the first one in a series of books in which I will make

an   attempt   to   reveal   a   paradox   –   the   helplessness   of   human

spirit over mysterious shadows of a curse – in a chaotic time, time when the patriarchal

sense of love and true beauty was falling apart.

 

        The book author,

        Stjepan Maksimović

        Poet, author, literary critic