(March 23, 2017) How can love be the most creative and destructive force at the same time? What are we willing to lose for love, what are we willing to put into play? How do you earn love? Asking this question is a young woman, Antonia, called Toni, crime novelist expecting her first child, who has just discovered the hidden secret in the past of her mother, a beloved brother lost on the streets of heroin, which she herself hhad him try for fun. It is the plot of "The love you deserve" (Knopf 2014), book by Daria Bignardi translated into German under the title " So glücklich wir waren ", which the author and current director of RAI-3 will present at the Italian Institute of Culture in Berlin. The meeting, moderated by Agnese Grieco, will be held on April 5 from 19 to 20.30. Bignardi published by Mondadori also the novels "I will not leave you orphans" (Rapallo Elsa Morante Award, Padua City Award), "A heavy karma" and "The perfect acoustics", translated into many languages. (Red)

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