“The Quantum Theory of Love” is a novel of extraordinary power and emotional intensity by a famous British actor and director. Two love stories, two escapes from fate, two tragedies that are separated by an entire century. Leo Deakin lost his beloved while traveling in South America. After Eleni's death, he turned into a clot of pain that did not let go of him for a moment. Trying to overcome mental suffering, Leo studies love - he breaks it down into the smallest particles, testing human feelings with the laws of physics... Moritz is a young soldier of the Austro-Hungarian army, who was drafted immediately after the outbreak of the First World War. The war and the historical cataclysms that followed it threw Moritz from his native Poland to Siberia, thousands of miles from his beloved girl Lotte. Having gone through the blood and horror of the world massacre, through the cold and hunger of the Siberian camps, Moritz returns home. He believes that love awaits him there...Danny Shainman's saga caused a real storm of delight among readers, and it is not surprising, because this book is one of the most unusual and attractive novels of recent times about love.