This book is the sixth in the "Cycle of the Invisible." It is a journey in China offers us the author, a China that mysterious intrigue and fascinate ... And it is through the portrait of "Ten children that Mrs. Ming has ever had" it treats topics and themes such as the one-child policy, working conditions, sexism of Chinese society, the Cultural Revolution, communism, the Doctrine of Confucius ...
Audacity, imagination, mythomania ... the author honors lying and fertile imagination. He chose for it an endearing and simple protagonist who inspires trust and respect. We love listening to him talk about his past and present country we do a full body gentle wisdom ... we love to hear remind us also that every being has the right to allow himself to suffer from lacking something, allow himself to cry ...
This reading, like many other of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, is pleasant to discover, the author has not lost its narrator of talent but I preferred him "The two gentlemen from Brussels," Oscar and the Lady en Rose "and" Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran "... the topic or perhaps a little lack of this salt that came up the other accounts ...