Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a world celebrity, one of the most widely read and performed French authors. In each of the books in the Invisible Cycle - Oscar and the Pink Lady, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Noah's Children, The Sumo Wrestler Who Couldn't Get Fat, as well as in the new story The Ten Children Madame Ming Never Had - brilliant intellectual mechanics are combined with deep humanity. Behind the external simplicity, bordering on minimalism, behind the transparent clarity of style, the wisdom of a philosophical parable, irony, and humor are hidden.
