Ernst Eckman is an artist. He specializes in the art of the impossible - creating objects so tiny, so perfect, that they cannot be real. A tiny camel that passes through the eye of a real needle; a pyramid carved from a grain of sugar. He works in silence, carving between heartbeats. Christopher Mallan loves Eckman's sculptures, sitting under their glass domes in the gallery. Until one day the impossible happens - and Christopher sees a sculpture so real that it moves, dances, even seems to breathe . . . A breathtakingly clever novel about power and loss from the author of THE GREAT BLUE YONDER.