Met David Tennant en Emilia Fox in de hoofdrollen 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.
Het Europese antwoord op You've got Mail.
Tot nu toe zijn er in Duitsland twee miljoen exemplaren verkocht. En gekocht door vijfendertig uitgevers over de hele wereld, Love Virtually van de Oostenrijkse romanschrijver Daniel Glattauer, is goed op weg een wereldwijd uitgeversfenomeen te worden.
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?
Aangepast door Eileen Horne.
Geproduceerd door Clive Brill
Een Pacific-productie voor BBC Radio 4.
Aanbevolen luisterniveau: CAE,, CPE, B2 tot C2 (hoger-gemiddeld tot gevorderd), IELTS 6.5 of hoger
