L’amour numérique

What it means to find that one person, that great love: Oliver Polak describes nothing less in his latest book L’amour numérique. Or, to say it with Toto, the band: Hold the line. Love isn’t always on time.

In different episodes, Polak talks about the uplifting and the disillusioning challenges of modern love. Search, swipe and date – this is how the adventures usually begin, set against the backdrop of the most romantic of all places, a Parisian café. And the encounters arranged like this end in a faux pax at times, other times in a disarmingly human way.

L'amour numérique is truthfully invented and at the same time saturated with experience. A deep soul striptease of the inner self, because in the end the protagonist meets only one person: himself. Does he meet women in order to love them or does he only meet them so as not to love himself?

A book about longing, desire and tenderness in an uncertain world. Leonard Cohen, Batman, Oliver Polak: the great lovers with thirsty hearts.

»No one can be as beautifully sad as the great storyteller Oliver Polak.« Maxim Biller

»Oliver Polak is the radiant heater of German comedy.« Der Spiegel

»The kind of abuse Polak describes gives voice to a specifically male experience with online dating in the 21st century ...« Marie-Luise Goldmann, WAMS

»No other current German television presenter has more soul than Oliver Polak.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

»An all-rounder, whose sense of style is unique in the jungle of the German comedy scene.« WAMS