'Mileva Einstein, theory of sadness', when the physicist wanted to turn his wife into his maid. Slavenka Drakulić reconstructs the terrible circumstances that marked the life of the first wife of the future Nobel Prize winner.

Mileva belonged to a wealthy Serbian family who lived on the Austro-Hungarian side of the border, in Novi Sad. She had a limp, she had a hard time as a child, but her intelligence opened doors for her and, there in Zurich, she managed to connect with a distracted, immature and brilliant boy.