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A contemporary novel about desire,
money, happiness and true love.
Michael Pilarczyk
Of course I love you; you are my past and
the past always travels with you.
DANCING IN HEAVEN
I wanted to read this novel right
away. I advise you to do the same.
- Robert Vuijsje, bestselling author
of Just Fine People
Normally I only read non-ction,
but this novel contains lessons for
life.
- Peter R. de Vries, Emmy Award
winning TV-personality
Former DJ Michael Pilarczyk has
written a fantastic book.
- Ruud de Wild,
No. 1 radio-personality Radio 538
Always exciting, a rst novel. Often
a debut determines your view on an
author and it's hard to change that.
Michael Pilarczyk has understood
very well that it's better to debut
immediately with a sparkling novel
- De Leesfabriek (The Reading
Factory), online news
a God in the trendy music scene full of malicious gossip
and envy, but his fame appears to be eeting, just like
his accumulated fortune. His real life - that is, his love for
Lisa - gets into hot water. Although she is his only reason
for living, again and again he runs away from her because
of his uncontrolled desire for self-assurance. Mishka is
completely bound up with the God of Greed and Fame and
forgets about the other God, the one of Love. But apart
from that he lives the passion of the one-night-stand. In-
itially that only conjures up panic and chaos. Mishka gets
lost in self-pity and even has to confront death.
When he nally is able to oversee the ruins of his life, it's
almost too late for him and Lisa. In the end he manages to
make up his balance of prot and loss and appears to have
been richly rewarded, but not in money
How to live and survive in a world in which the merciless
pursuit of money is celebrated and love is commercially
exploited? That's the question Michael Pilarczyk's rst
novel tries to answer. Dancing in Heaven is an excep-
tional story because the author ingeniously combines two
totally dierent worlds, the fake one of big business and
the real one of pure love. And thanks to that unique and
instructive combination of two colliding worlds, resulting
in an unpredictable happy end, Dancing in Heaven is
a tremendous success (in sales). An outstanding perfor-
mance by newcomer Michael Pilarczyk.
Dancing in Heaven was released on the 23rd of May 2014
and sold 30.000 copies within four months in the Neth-
erlands and Belgium. This rst novel by Dutch author Mi-
chael Pilarczyk immediately hit various bestseller lists and
reached the top 5 spots of major bookselling chains (AKO
en Bruna) and Bol.com in no time. Both book and author
received massive media attention for weeks. Pilarczyk was
also interviewed on national radio and television, full-page
interviews and reviews were published in major maga-
zines, popular websites and all national newspapers. On
Facebook, readers and fans posted thousands of messages
and positive reviews.
DANCING IN HEAVEN
FIRST NOVEL,
TREMENDOUS SUCCESS
Michael Pilarczyk (1969) is a Dutch author. His rst novel
Dancing in Heaven sold over 30.000 copies within four
months (June-September 2014). He became well known
in the Netherlands between 1988 en 2010 as a radio and
television personality. At 29 he became a millionaire, but
during the nancial crisis in 1998 he ended up broke. One
year later he founded his rst media company in the Inter-
net business. After selling Pilarczyk Media Group in 2007
to publishing house De Telegraaf, he entered Quote's 'top
100 self-made entrepreneurs'. As a passionate sailor he
sailed along various European coasts during a 40 month
sabbatical. He lives alternately in Amsterdam and Barce-
lona. Pilarczyk is a life coach and well-known inspirational
speaker on personal development.
About the author:
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Dancing in Heaven is the overwhelming life story of
two young people struggling with love and death in a
world dominated by glamour, money and megalomania.
DJ Mishka Kamadev's desperate search for pure love and
commercial success gets bogged down by lies and deceit.
Greed and materialism have distracted him from his love
for his wife Lisa, who is incurably ill.
There are a few crucial moments in the gripping story
of Dancing in Heaven when Mishka makes the wrong
choices, because he has been blinded by his huge success
as a DJ and by his newly acquired riches. He thinks he is
Author: Michael Pilarczyk
Paperback with aps
240 pages
format: 13,5 x 21 cm
RRP: 19,95
9 789079 679201
ISBN 978-90-79679-20-1
Outline:
In the seventies when he was a small boy, Mishka Kama-
dev moved with his parents from poor communist Poland
to the wealthy Netherlands. In his youth his grandfather,
earning lots of money, is his role model, far more so than
his parents who are struggling for their existence. The
love of his youth is Lotte, but she nds no purpose in life,
while Mishka becomes a successful social climber. They
drift apart.
In the nineties, enterprising adolescent Mishka is a rising
DJ-star. Soon he earns far more money than his father
and becomes the rst internationally renowned Dutch DJ.
When he is 22 he marries the love of his life, 29 year-old
Lisa di Angelo. He lives in a barn of a house, is The God of
House Music and thinks he's a made man. The glamor-
ous life appeals to him but at the same time death grins
at him: Lisa appears to be incurably ill. In his nightlife
nothing seems to matter for the DJ-God, during the day
however, he looks after Lisa who is terminally ill. This split
existence is too much for the energetic and self-condent
Mishka. He can't cope with this responsibility and seeks
oblivion in vodka and women, including Lisa's close friend
and a Hungarian whore.
Everybody is looking for happiness, everybody wants
to be happy, but nobody knows what that is, being
happy. You can't hold it; it's elusive, though sometimes
you might touch it. It is invisible, yet we recognize it
when it's there and we miss it when it's gone. It's some-
thing and it's nothing. A happy life doesn't exist; the
ultimate happiness in life consists of a few concentrat-
ed moments. Imagine these moments as logs, and when
we stack those logs on top of each other, we build a
rainbow-stairway to heaven in order to meet with the
Universe, or with God, as most people call it. If in this
lifetime everything has been learned and wisdom has
been transferred, our mission during this earthly exist-
ence has been completed. Then the Holy Rainbow may
be entered.
Translated excerpts from
Dancing in Heaven:
On the morning of the cremation I wake up early. I
get out of bed and walk into the bathroom. There are
two toothbrushes next to each other. I open her cabinet.
Black eyeliner, red nail polish and perfume. I pull her
hairs out of the hairbrush and carefully place them in
the silver jewellery box on the dresser. This farewell is
irreversible, and nally I understand that the only thing
we might lose in life is love.
We talked about it when we were children, when
anything was possible. We had no responsibilities, no
worries and no money. An existence close to bliss, but
happiness is only recognized from a distance. She and I
were kids and they seem to own the future, but that fu-
ture disappears when it comes closer and time consumes
their faith and dreams.
I'm in love with death,' I said, 'but my love for her is
immortal.
On the website www.dansenindehemel.nl/international
you will nd a few chapters of the book translated in
English. The website also contains several YouTube videos
showing book trailers of Dancing in Heaven, reviews,
Facebook comments and more.
Apart from the colliding world of night and day a totally
dierent world emerges: the stock market, reckless specu-
lating with borrowed money and setting up his own music
company. Unfortunately the naive spirit of young Mishkas
enterprise is no match for the cunning of tough entrepre-
neurs, stock traders, bankers and the economic depression.
Suddenly he is confronted by an enormous debt. During
a miserable and drunken night he seeks comfort with his
old girl friend Lotte. She phones him a few months later
confronting him with the news: she's pregnant.
Mishka tries to escape from the nancial swamp and from
the ruins of his love life. Lisa is getting weaker and weaker,
but with death on the doorstep she appears to be self-sac-
ricing and a tower of strength. Mishka turns to her and his
little daughter Donna for support. Finally he is growing up
and doesn't run away from his responsibility as a husband
and father anymore; the husband supporting his wife in
her nal days and the father starting to raise Donna and
building a new future.
