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Loneliness on the Net

A more contemporary story would be impossible: the Internet, pagers, airline e-tickets, genome decoding, text messages. And it?s a c lassic love story. A story of love on the Internet. The ultimate love, the one of dreams. Wiśniewski tells the story superbly and an alytically taking his reader from near celebratory tenderness only to amaze a few lines later with daring eroticism. ''Loneliness on the Net'' is also a tribute to knowledge intertwined with a love story. It?s a story about molecules of emotions, about who discovere d DNA, and what happened to Einstein?s brain. ''Loneliness on the Net'' hit all bestseller lists in Poland (over 300.000 copies sold). The novel has been translated into many langu ages and was brought to the Polish cinema theatres as a feature movie in 2006.

• author: Janusz Leon Wiśniewski