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?"
Biografie
Mitch Albom, Jahrgang 1958, schreibt für die Detroit Free Press und wurde bereits zehnmal als Amerikas Sportkolumnist Nr. 1 ausgezeichnet. Albom, der früher als professioneller Musiker arbeitete, ist außerdem als Radiomoderator und TV-Journalist tätig. Mit seiner Frau Janine lebt er in Michigan.