Review of The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Contemporary French literature outclasses all other nationalities when it comes to melding the popular and the profound, as epitomized by Annie Ernaux’s addictively cerebral TMI or Amélie Nothomb’s highbrow whimsy. Now Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt—a novelist and playwright best known outside of Europe for his novella Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, which became a movie starring Omar Sharif—has written an exhilarating short story collection that fits squarely into this tradition.  Read the rest @ Words Without Borders.