If you want to find out if they really meet you have to read the novel.

Even though they tease and flirt, they philosophize and analyze a great deal too. This is important to know, as that determines the nature of their exchange. Later they compare their impressions and try to find out if they did recognize each other. They just both know that they are at the same restaurant at the same time. They also arrange a date without really meeting each other. They tease and flirt and exchange their hidden dreams and wishes and get to know each other better and better. What if he was anything like the man she imagines? Still she can’t stop writing. It seems only natural she does not want to meet Leo. Without knowing each other they develop crushes. And because they both imagine each other. I am really pleased to see that Glattauer’s book will be published in English in 2011.Įmmi writes accidentally to Leo and they keep on writing to each other because each one likes the tone of the other’s e-mails. After, let’s say, two – three pages you will have forgotten that this is a novel, you will be sure that you are reading a real e-mail exchange between two people. You start it, you read and you do not stop before the end. I must say, I have not often been this engrossed. I even read it in hardback, a rare thing, as I was so curious to find out what the hype was all about. I have already read Love Virtually because the original came out in Germany in 2006. Love Virtually is a funny, fast-paced and utterly absorbing novel, with plenty of twists and turns, about a love affair conducted entirely by email. Will their feelings for each other survive the test of a real-life encounter? But they keep putting off the moment – the prospect both excites and unsettles them. The erotic tension simmers, and it seems only a matter of time before they will meet in person. A few brief exchanges are all it takes to spark a mutual interest in each other, and soon Emmi and Leo are sharing their innermost secrets and longings. Being polite he replies, and Emmi writes back. It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips.

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