《最後14堂星期二的課》作者的最新力作，獻給所有認為自己來到人間並沒有什麼意義的人。

在天堂遇見的五個人
每一個人都會在天堂裡遇見五個人
聽他們說出你的五個功課，你才能了解自己的生命

故事描寫一個在遊樂園裡的老工人艾迪，自從退伍以後就困在家鄉，每天重複一樣的工作。他認為自己被命運綁住，他認為自己的人生是被沈默卻又暴躁的父親害了。他待在這個海灘小鎮，孤單一人。他只剩下回憶。

在83歲生日這一天，他為了救一個小女孩而喪了命，進了天堂。在天堂裡，艾迪遇見五個曾經出現在他生命裡的人。這五個人逐一對他說出自己的故事，以及他們是什麼時候在人間與艾迪相遇。艾迪逐漸恍然大悟：原來，自己的生命裡一直都有別人的生命；而別人的故事與自己的故事，會在最無法預料的時空，產生交集。

本書要告訴讀者：每一個生命都會碰觸到另一個生命；你所付出的愛，絕對不會白費。你所遇到的人，都會以某種方式再回到生命裡。假如你認為自己微不足道，讀過這本書後你會明白：每一個人都是重要的。我們來到人間，是為了與別人相遇。


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