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 tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens 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: "What was I here?" (fantasticfiction.co.uk).
Lalu siapakah 5 orang yang ditemui Eddie di surga? Pelajaran dan kisah-kisah apakah yang diceritakan mereka padanya?
Really, buku ini sangat bagus. Cara Mitch Albom berkisah dengan alur-alurnya yang kadang membingungkan tapi membuat kesan cerita lebih dalam. Membuat bukan hanya Eddie yang belajar dari kehidupannya dulu, tapi kita pun ikut menyadari bahwa betapa sedih dan malangnya nasib kita dalam hidup, tetaplah yakin bahwa diri kita dan kehidupan kita itu berharga. Mungkin kita tidak berpikir demikian, tapi orang lain di sekeliling kita. Mereka mungkin tidak mengatakannya langsung, tapi dengan melihat kebahagian merekalah, kita merasa hidup kita berguna bagi orang lain.
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