书名：The Five People You Meet In Heaven天堂里遇见的五个人

作者：Mitch Albom 

出版社名称：Time Warner Books 

出版时间：2004 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780751536140 

商品尺寸：15.4 x 1.9 x 18.5 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：224（以实物为准）Five People You Meet in Heaven《天堂里遇见的五个人》是美国作家米奇·阿尔博姆的作品，自问世以来，这部作品连续占据美国各大图书畅销排行榜前五位，多达四十多周。小说讲述的是一位八旬老人爱迪的故事。爱迪是一个海滨游乐场的维修工人，在他八十三岁生日那天，他为了从一部坠落的游乐车下面救出一个小女孩，不幸丧生。当他醒来的时候，他已经来到了天堂。但是，天堂并不是他想象中的伊甸园，不是那个他可以同亲人相会，可以“在云头飘浮，在河中嬉戏，在山间漫游”的地方。他在天堂里遇见了五个人。这五个人中有他失去的亲人、熟人以及完完全全的陌路人。他们逐一地向爱迪讲述和解释了他生活中似乎与他毫不相关的故事和联系，揭示出这样一个道理：所有的生命都是相互关联的，就像河底的卵石，一个牵连一个。爱迪终于领悟到，他在人世间自认为毫无意义的生活，其实正是他生命的价值所在。

作者米奇·阿尔博姆以感人肺腑的笔触讲述了一个娓娓动听的故事，而故事中揭示的人生哲理更为耐人寻味。每一位读过《你在天堂里遇见的五个人》的人，心灵都会受到震撼。

Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie’s world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie’s birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie’s own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.

Review：

“Albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. But, for the most part, Albom’s telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It’s A Wonderful Life.” —Patrick O’Kelley

“Albom has a gift for tapping into readers' sincerely sentimental spots, and he will undoubtedly connect again here.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Albom has done a masterful job.” — Oakland Press

“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 magazine

有些故事注定要从结局讲起的——其实，所有的结尾又何尝不是开端呢？

《相约星期二》随着莫里的溘然长逝而告终。六年后，在米奇·阿尔博姆的全新力作Five People You Meet in Heaven《你在天堂里遇见的五个人》中，纪实换成了虚构；死亡从结局演变成了开端；主角还是一位老人——不是洞明世事的教授，而是到死都对自己的一生心存惶惑的退伍老兵，游乐场维修工。

他叫爱迪，八十三岁生日那天，为了拯救在突发事故中身处险境的女孩而殒命游乐场。醒来时，爱迪已身处天堂，这才发现：那里并不是牧歌萦绕的伊甸园，而是地球上生活片断的交叠重现。五个被爱迪或铭记或忽略或遗忘的人，轮流登场，引领他寻找逝去的时光，追问人生的谜底。无形间，天地间仿佛有一条巨大的锁链，爱迪只是其中的一环。

《你在天堂里遇见的五个人》让每一个读完的人都成了锁链中的一环，分享着同一个秘密：天堂里，会有五个人，为了五段不同的记忆，等候你长大、相爱、衰老、死亡，等待着解答你的疑问。因为，我们每一个人都会影响到另一个人，世界上各式各样的故事，说到底都是同一个。

米奇·阿尔博姆，美国著名专栏作家，电台主持，电视评论员，此外还是活跃的慈善活动家。迄今为止，阿尔博姆已出版九部畅销著作，其中纪实作品《相约星期二》在全美各大图书畅销排行榜上停留四年之久，被译成包括中文在内的三十一种文字，全球累计销量高达一千一百万册，成为近年来图书出版业的奇迹。2003年，阿尔博姆六年磨一剑的小说《你在天堂里遇见的五个人》将“星期二神话”继续延伸，迄今已累计售出八百万册，成为当年有能力在排行榜上与《达芬奇密码》叫板的作品。米奇·阿尔博姆目前与妻子简宁居住在美国密歇根州。

Mitch Albomis an internationally renowned author, screenwriter, playwright, nationally syndicated columnist, broadcaster and musician. He is the author of six consecutive number oneNew York Times bestsellers—includingTuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time—and his books have collectively sold more than thirty-five million copies in forty-five languages. Four of his books have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies. He has founded eight charities in Detroit and Haiti, where he operates an orphanage. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.