'We talked and drank, drank and talked, and at some point - it had long been a black night outside - we came to talk about first love ...', says Urs Widmer's Night of Love. Isabel Allende, Vladimir Nabokov, Anton Chekhov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Iris Murdoch, Ivan Turgenev, Eva Ibbotson, Rafik Schami and many more also tell of their first love. Stories about tender feelings and awakening desires, secret meetings and heavenly hours of togetherness or longings that have never been fulfilled; Stories of the miracle, but also of the cruelty of first love, of the melancholy of memory, of suffering from the first love, which is associated with the pain of growing up, but can sometimes even mean lifelong happiness.