The latest in former President Barack Obama’s series of memoirs, titled “Pictures that Move We”, has topped the New York Times Bestseller List for the fifth week in a row.

This astounding and touching work delves deep into the former President’s psyche. The book contains no actual text – not even captions – but rather consists solely of 300 incredibly moving photographs of President Obama.

Obama starts the book smiling his most beatific smile, filling all with its warmth of optimism and hope for humanity. The book then takes a pensive turn as President Obama looks concerned while speaking on the telephone, presumably with a world leader holding an American hostage, or about to declare war on a neighboring country, or something else of similarly grave moment. The dramatic tension for the reader is palpable.

The reader is then swept along with the former President exhibiting a barely restrained righteous fury as he observes in a collage of photos a slum, a piece of garbage in an alley, and a perhaps down-on-his-luck citizen scrabbling for hope, or change; it’s hard to tell as the background of the photos (and many others in the book) is somewhat blurry and unclear, but this is unimportant – it’s Obama in the foreground that calls the reader’s attention.

This is followed by a compelling pair of images of President Obama in his element – at the podium, behind a teleprompter. The certain profundity of the words he is reading is reflected in the cool and composed gravity of his expression, here displayed on facing pages just as the former President faced first one teleprompter, then the other, then back again. The reader is all but transported right into the riveting scene.

Next the stakes are raised as we see the former President operate without a net: the raw, unscripted environment of the press conference. Such photos are inestimably prized due to their rarity. On Obama’s face we see a multi-layered expression of earnest concern for the American people and the importance of conveying to them the message they need to hear, tempered by the subtle shading of an infinite patience for journalists who just can’t seem to understand, or ask the right questions.

We are then back with President Obama in the Oval Office, looking determined again, gesturing broadly with his hands to an audience of indistinct men in suits, surely solving whatever problems he resolved to address in some of the other pictures.

Lastly we come to the end of the story. Former President Barack Obama smiles first at his lovely wife Michelle and then off the page and out at us all, letting the world know that he has completed his mission and saved the world from disaster.

In a time of terror, crisis and political strife, former President Obama has returned from the idyllic past of his time in office to give all Americans – nay, the whole world – a sense of hope, a feeling of love, and the promise of a better world to come.

There is already discussion of a nearly unprecedented second Nobel prize, this time of course for Literature.