Carlo Camerani, despite his location in a little town of Emilia County in Italy, is a successful insurance broker. He is considered the jewel of the crown of the multinational insurance company IGI, but the accident while testing driving his nephew’s brand new motorbike, marks the start of a chain of fundamental changes both in his personal and working life. The reaction of IGI company takes him down to an unexpected poor quality of life. By chance he encounters Amedeo, an antiques dealer, who was ostracised by his comunity. Beetween them starts an unlikely friendship which enables them both to renewed faith in future life.

The author

Eduard Bercovich describes himself as a “war product”, in fact, he was bornin 1945 to Jewish parents. His father, a lawyer from Moldavia and his mother of Hungarian origin, were forced to flee the nazi uprising. After thirteen years spent in Romania under Stalinist rule, the whole family migrated to the State of Israel. At the age of twenty two Bercovich relocated to Italy to pursue his studies in medicine at the prestigious University of Bologna where he graduated cum laude. He went on to complete a brilliant university career achieving the full professorship. Bercovich, a specialist in urological surgery, currently divides his working life between Milan and Bologna. His writing draws inspiration from that which surrounds him: real life with a sprinkle of fantasy. His first novel Dove le luci non si spengono mai (2017) was written and published in Italian. A Life Worth Living marks his first novel translated in English.