Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a world celebrity, perhaps the most widely read and performed French author on stage. In each of the books included in the Invisible Cycle - “Oscar and the Pink Lady”, “Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran”, “Children” Noah”, “Milarepa” and the new story “The Sumo Wrestler Who Couldn’t Get Fat” - the theme of a person’s relationship to one of the world’s religions is revealed: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zen Buddhism. Schmitt's secret is the combination of brilliant intellectual mechanics with deep humanity and simplicity. Behind the simplicity bordering on minimalism, behind the transparent clarity of the style, there is hidden the wisdom of a philosophical parable, irony, and humor. A skinny teenager hangs out at a Tokyo intersection, selling photo comics and dubious-looking plastic toys for adults. He is lonely and angry at everyone in the world. Especially the strange old man, who is sure that in the frail boy, who doesn’t get to have lunch every day, there is hidden a fat man and a future champion. This time E.-E. Schmitt, in his new story from the Cycle of the Invisible, hides the key to harmony and happiness in... sumo wrestling and meditation.