Friday, June 1, 2007

48. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Another Mitch Albom. It's hard to believe this man was a sports journalist for so many years, then wrote a best selling memoir and then came out with this stunning piece of fiction.

The novel focuses on a elderly repairman, Eddie, who is killed suddenly in a shock accident at a funfair. After "death", he meets five people whose lives he has touched in some way; sometimes insignificant events, the book suggests, have greater ramifications than we will ever realise.

I really liked this book - I think I need my own copy so I can re-read it every now and then. It's really well crafted and very very clever.

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