The Five People You Meet in Heaven has become a worldwide bestseller and Albom is one of those authors you either love or hate. Personally I’m a fan and found it a moving and thought provoking book. It’s pretty powerful stuff.
Read by the author Unabridged on 4 CDs Running time approx 5 hours
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
‘Mitch Albom lifts us up to a new level. You’ll find here echoes of the classics – The Odyssey for one – and that puts Albom’s book in the best of company’ Frank McCourt
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About Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom is an internationally bestselling author, screenwriter, playwright, and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven consecutive number one New York Times bestsellers and has sold over forty million copies of his books in forty-seven languages worldwide, including Tuesdays with Morrie, which is one of the bestselling memoirs of all time.
Albom also works as a columnist and broadcaster and has founded nine charities in Detroit and operated an orphanage in Port Au Prince, Haiti. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan
