Mitch Albom (b. 1958) — a well-known American writer, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television host, and musician, whose books have sold over 39 million copies worldwide. «The Five People You Meet in Heaven» (2003) – Albom's debut novel, which spent 95 weeks on the «New York Times» bestseller list, has been translated into 35 languages and became the basis for the eponymous television film in 2004 — tells the story of Eddie, an amusement park maintenance man who saved a girl during a malfunction of one of the rides at the cost of his own life. Finding himself beyond the last threshold, Eddie meets the souls of five people, both familiar and unfamiliar: some left a significant mark on his fate, while he left a mark on the fates of others. With each of these encounters, new, unexpected meanings of his long (and what he once thought was ordinary, dull, and worthless) earthly life unfold before him, of which he had no clue amidst the monotony of daily hustle and bustle…
