of Eric Emmanuel Schmitt (Albin Michel Editeur)
Born in 1960, the French writer and playwright Eric Emmanuel Schmitt that here have already met with the funny and terrible double portrait of Hitler in "The the other hand, is the author of many of the most frequently performed theater pieces in Europe.
His ability to observe events and people from different points of view totally unedited, infuse your writing with an emotional force, due both to know how to portray in detail the darkest and deepest feelings, both to catch every detail of the soul human, revealing the secrets, desires, doubts.
With an engaging style and devoid of deliberate tragedy, he touches the mysterious entity from which the man has always intrigued and scared at the same time: love, hate, life and death.
Oscar, the protagonist of this short theatrical text, is a ten year old boy suffering from leukemia and sentenced to death, which came to his last days and without any hope, is aware of the imminence of death.
Unable to talk about his imminent end because of the useless game of adults who pretend to "know nothing" forcing also, in turn, to pretend, Oscar now knows he has only a short time before him, insufficient to understand even a little of the mystery of life, and is forced to spend his hours in solitude, in the hospital where he is detained, supporting his despite the inability of the "big" to respond to his questions and to accompany it with serenity in his latest trip.
The only person who can help him and understand his desires, is the mysterious old lady in pink , who with his great strength and will to love Oscar donate to the joy of living in the days when life is leaving him.
To answer the questions, too late, fill the mind of Oscar, she proposes a game: write a letter to God every day, imagining that the time expands up to ten years. Oscar And so, day after day, will be able to live the life that he was denied, imagining twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years, through the experiences made by their imagination and their desire for knowledge.
Will it understand, in his few years, the great mysteries of life, suffering, and the joy of the wonderful sweetness of love, until the tenth day when, come to one hundred and ten years, Oscar falls asleep, leaving a note on the bedside table: " Only God has the right to wake .
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