Revenge of forgiveness

Author's name: Éric Emmanuel Schmitt Publisher: Maskillyani Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2019 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Four stories and four destinies, seemingly separate but connected by a single thread—the theme of forgiveness, governed by a single obsession—the exploration of the human soul and the most secret-controlled destinies. Two sisters subjected to the most conflicting and layered feelings, love and hatred, fate plays its favorite game with them, separates them then reunites them, so who will have the final word in the end: envy or mercy, revenge or forgiveness? A wealthy womanizer exploits the innocence of a loving woman and takes her child from her. What lessons can human nature learn from such a tragedy? A heartless man regains his humanity thanks to a girl, with whom he was drowning in reading "The Little Prince," before realizing one day that he was the one behind the crash of the reader's airplane. A woman regularly visits her daughter's murderer, who was convicted of the murders of fifteen girls. She does not just visit him but tames his brutality and tries to bring him out of his isolation. Why does she do all that? This is the human test that Éric Emmanuel Schmitt offers to his readers, the test of forgiveness in the face of revenge, employing a sharp edge into the depths of the human soul's tendency toward the most bizarre reactions. Isn't forgiveness ultimately, in its primal state, revenge?