So here's one on a book that isn't available in English, I'm afraid. It's a nice love story in e-mail-format. I'm normally not so keen on these kind of modernizations of the good old novel in letters. The outcome is often a bit artificial, maybe even conceited. Not in this case: Glattauer pulls it off quite well. He makes beautiful use of e-mail-specifics as i.e. the exact time of a message being sent or the "Re:" as additional means to give insights into the two main character's psychology. Oh, I forgot to mention them: Emmi and Leo first make contact accidentally, but keep on sending each other e-mails until a fully fledged love story evolves. A number of unforseeable things happen and keep the storyline taught. The characters are quite 'sympatico' and one hopes to see them in a happy ending. O.k., it might not be exactly high literature, but the novel is unputdownable and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel that's already on the market.
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