Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a philosopher and researcher of the human soul, writer and film director, one of the most successful European playwrights, a man who, in his books “The Gospel of Pilate”, “The Sect of Egoists”, “Oscar and the Pink Lady”, “ Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran”, “Another’s Share”, and also in his plays he asked questions to God and Pontius Pilate, Buddha and Mohammed, Freud, Mozart and Denis Diderot. Schmitt’s new collection of short stories “Concert in Memory of an Angel” received the Prix Goncourt in 2010 . The writer, as always, offers brilliant, sophisticated and... completely unexpected plot moves. What connects an elderly woman who poisoned three husbands and the French president who is in love with his wife? A strapping sailor worried about not paying enough attention to his daughters, and a cynical businessman who made his first billion by trading in images of Catholic saints and porno accessories? And what does Saint Rita, the patroness of those in trouble and despair, have to do with it?