The two-volume Toby Lolness, A Hairbreadth of Death and The Eyes of Eliza, was published in France in 2006–2007, and was then translated into 28 languages and became a worldwide bestseller. Having won about 20 prestigious French and international literary awards, this action-packed fantasy novel brought worldwide fame to its author, the young French writer and playwright Timothée de Fombelle. The first of two books, “On the Breadth of Death,” introduces the main character and the fairy-tale world, in which the events of the novel unfold. A tiny boy, Toby, and his family live in a huge Tree. Toby's father, a scientist, has created a mechanism capable of converting tree sap into energy. He refuses to reveal the secret of his great invention, because he is sure that it can destroy the Tree and its people. The Lolness family is sent to prison. Only Toby manages to escape, but from that moment on the boy's life hangs by a thread. How to save parents from inevitable death? How to resist an entire army of villains when your height is only one and a half millimeters? How to accomplish the impossible and make sure that your world does not cease to exist?