The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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THE 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the author of Tuesdays with Morrie comes an enchanting, beautifvilly crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold.
"Transcendent____Albom has aimed high here, and there's a whiff
of paradise as a result." ^^^^^^^ Journal-Constitution
"Simply told, sentimental, and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership."
—Publishers Meekly (starred review)
"A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."
—The New York Times
"Albom has the ability to make you cry in spite of yourself."
—The Boston Globe
"Fans of Tuesdays with Morrie will be delighted with this novel."
—People
"This is the fable you will devour when you fall in love. This is the
tale you will keep by your side when you are lost. This is the story you
will turn to again and again, because it possesses the rare magic to let
you see yourself and the world anew. This book is a gift to the soul."... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the author of Tuesdays with Morrie comes an enchanting, beautifvilly crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold.
"Transcendent____Albom has aimed high here, and there's a whiff
of paradise as a result." ^^^^^^^ Journal-Constitution
"Simply told, sentimental, and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership."
—Publishers Meekly (starred review)
"A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."
—The New York Times
"Albom has the ability to make you cry in spite of yourself."
—The Boston Globe
"Fans of Tuesdays with Morrie will be delighted with this novel."
—People
"This is the fable you will devour when you fall in love. This is the
tale you will keep by your side when you are lost. This is the story you
will turn to again and again, because it possesses the rare magic to let
you see yourself and the world anew. This book is a gift to the soul."
—^Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and
The Bonesetter's Daughter
"All endings are also beginnings. IVe just don't know it at the time "
From the author of the phenomenal international bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie comes this instant New York Times No. 1 bestseller, an enchanting, beautifully written novel about heaven and earth that has already touched miUions around the world.
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years—firom the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge—so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.
Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his—and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.
One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his hfe: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes firom the most
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unlikely of sources, is as magical and inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, his first novel, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife—and the meaning of our lives here on earth. Already embraced as an international bestseller, find out why this timeless tale is treasured by readers of fine fiction and fans of Tuesdays with Morrie around the world. As author Amy Tan says, "This book is a gift to the soul."
MITCH ALBOM is an author, ¦jv ^^^ playwright, and screenwriter
, who has written seven books, ^B^ ^^j^VBii^ including the international I ^ ^^ bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie,
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' ^^WMfc* ' ' instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller that has since sold seven million copies worldwide. Both books were made into acclaimed TV films. Mitch also works as a columnist and a broadcaster, and serves on numerous charitable boards. He lives with his wife, Jarrine, in Michigan.
Visit Mitch at AIbomfivepeopIe.com Vissza