Med David Tennant og Emilia Fox i hovedrollerne, Love Virtually by Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer is a thoroughly modern epistolary novel with one difference - its protagonists Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike communicate exclusively by email.
Det europæiske svar på You've got Mail.
To millioner eksemplarer solgt i Tyskland til dato. Og købt af femogtredive udgivere rundt om i verden, Love Virtually af den østrigske romanforfatter Daniel Glattauer, er godt på vej til at blive et globalt udgivelsesfænomen.
They "meet" when Emmi mistakenly sends an e-mail to Leo's inbox. A romance ensues that allows them to live out a shared secret life far removed from their day-to-day existences. But to what extent does it rely on fantasy and escapism, and will it survive a real-life meeting?
The problem is...Emmi (a modern Madame Bovary) is married....
Have email, Facebook, texting and the like created a generation of isolated young people who prefer to communicate remotely - who may be in fact afraid to engage in face to face contact to find love? Is it possible to fall in love with someone you've never met? Does a virtual affair 'count' as adultery? What are the implications of the fact that we can pretend to be anyone in cyberspace?
Bearbejdet af Eileen Horne.
Produceret af Clive Brill
En Pacific-produktion for BBC Radio 4.
Foreslået lytteniveau: CAE, CPE, B2 til C2 (øvre-mellem til avanceret), IELTS 6,5 eller derover
