- Editorial:
- LIBROS EN INGLES
- Año de edición:
- 2004
- Materia
- Libros en inglés
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7515-3614-0
- Páginas:
- 231
- Encuadernación:
- BOLSILLO
- Colección:
- Genérica
FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
ALBOM, MITCH
The Five People You Meet in Heaven is the story of Eddie, a wounded war veteran who lives what he believes is an uninspired and lonely life fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie is killed while trying to save a little girl from a falling ride. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a location but a place in which your life is explained to you by five people who were in it who affected, or were affected by, your life.
Albom has said the book was inspired by his real life uncle, Eddie Beitchman, who, like the character, served during World War II in the Philippines, and died when he was 83. Eddie told Albom, as a child, about a time he was rushed to surgery and had a near-death experience, his soul floating above the bed. There, Eddie said, he saw all his dead relatives waiting for him at the edge of the bed. Albom has said that image of people waiting when you die inspired his concept of The Five People You Meet in Heaven
