In his novel "The Biography of Love," which was first published in the summer of 2001 and has since sold over 120,000 copies, Martin Walser tells the incredible yet convincing story of a woman who must cope with wealth amidst troubled family relationships and, after the death of her husband, with poverty. She manages this with the help of an inexhaustible power of love, which ultimately brings her a new, unusual love that can almost be described as fairy-tale-like.