Eric emmanuel schmitt biography for kids

In La traversée des temps (Crossing Time), the first volume of which, Paradis perdus (Paradise Lost), was published in 2021, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt has set himself the mammoth challenge of writing fiction to tell the story of humanity.

Bringing together scientific, medical, religious and philosophical knowledge and creating strong, tender and very real characters, he propels readers from one world to the next, from Prehistory to our own time and from evolutions to revolutions, while the past illuminates the present.

In Book II, La Porte du ciel (2021 – Heaven's Gate), wearing his extraordinary scholarship lightly, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt brings readers another detective-style novel set in the Near Middle East and an era portrayed by the Bible.

With the pen of a visionary and informed by the latest research in Assyriology, he reproduces the complexity and glories of Mesopotamia, a region we know so little about but to which we owe so much.