Las Cinco Personas que Encontaras en el Cielo (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

Mitch Albom (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion (May 12, 2004)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 140130172X
• ISBN-13: 978-1401301729
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #542,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

MITCH ALBOM is an internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have collectively sold over 28 million copies worldwide; have been published in forty-one territories and in forty-two languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies.

He is the author of ten books, including the newest, "Have a Little Faith. His first novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", (9/03) is the most successful U.S. hardback first novel ever and has to date sold over 11 million copies worldwide. "Tuesdays With Morrie," (1997) his chronicle of time spent with a beloved but dying college professor, spent four years on the NY Times bestsellers list and is now the most successful memoir ever published. His three best sellers, including For One More Day (9/06) have been turned into successful TV movies. Oprah Winfrey produced the film version of Tuesdays With Morrie in December 1999, starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria. The film garnered four Emmy awards, including best TV film, director, actor and supporting actor. The critically acclaimed Five People You Meet in Heaven aired on ABC in winter, 2004. Directed by Lloyd Kramer, the film was the most watched TV movie of the year, with 19 million viewers. Most recently, Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom's For One More Day aired on ABC in December 2007 and earned Ellen Burstyn a Screen Actors Guild nomination.

An award-winning journalist and radio host, Albom wrote the screenplay for both For One More Day and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and is an established playwright, having authored numerous pieces for the theater, including the off-Broadway version of Tuesdays With Morrie (co-written with Jeffrey Hatcher) which has seen over one hundred productions across the US and Canada.

Albom has founded three charities in the metropolitan Detroit area: "The Dream Fund," "A Time To Help," and "S.A.Y Detroit." Albom devoted an area of his website, www.mitchalbom.com/service , to hosting a directory of local and national service opportunities. He also raises money for literacy projects through a variety of means including his performances with The Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of writers which includes Steven King, Dave Barry, Scott Turow, Amy Tan and Ridley Pearson. Albom serves on the boards of various charities and, in 1999, was named National Hospice Organization's Man of the Year.

He lives with his wife, Janine, in Detroit, MI.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars El libro mas hermoso que he leido.., March 27, 2005

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Wanda Rodz "Wanda" (Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Las Cinco Personas que Encontaras en el Cielo (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Este libro es la respuesta a mil preguntas sobre la vida despues de la vida. Tuve la dicha de encontrar este libro en un momento dificil de mi vida, al perder a alguien muy querido y mi cabeza llenarse de mil preguntas y dudas. Lo lei en unas 4 horas y poco a poco fui sintiendo una paz y una conformidad inexplicables. Si quieres entender...debes leerlo. La respuesta de tu vida.....esta en Cielo!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THE TAPESTRY OF LIFE..., February 4, 2006

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Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Las Cinco Personas que Encontaras en el Cielo (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Written in clear, spare prose, this slender tome is a pleasant little book that can easily be read in one sitting. It is a sentimental look at life and the hereafter. This book, the Spanish text edition of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", focuses on an individual named Eddie, who is the chief maintenance mechanic for the rides at a seaside amusement park called Ruby Pier. It is around him that the book revolves. Eddie is a somewhat embittered and lonely old man who tragically dies on his eighty third birthday, while trying to save a child from certain death when an amusement ride comes loose from its moorings.

When he dies, Eddie meets five people in heaven. Each of them imparts a special lesson about Eddie's life. Each lesson allows him to understand the meaning of his life a little better. The five people that he meets show Eddie, and the reader, how we are all connected, and that the smallest acts can often have great impact on others, both positively and negatively. The book's bottom line message is that everyone has a purpose in life, whether or not it is readily apparent to one. It is as if there were a cosmic tapestry, with the life of one interwoven with the life of another, the threads crossing unknowingly but creating a larger picture.

Although the author definitely manipulates the sensibilities of the reader, that is not necessarily a bad thing. The book, however, is somewhat predictable and, at times, a little reminiscent of a treacly Hallmark greeting card, both schmaltzy and touching. It was no surprise that the book ended up as a Hallmark Hall of Fame production and turned into a made-for-TV movie. The film is quite enjoyable, and Jon Voight is terrific in the lead role. I actually saw the film before I read the book, and the film whetted my appetite for the book. While not as good as the author's other book, "Tuesdays with Morrie", it is still a book that will resonate, if only because many will find its simple message comforting. Profundity, after all, may be found in simplicity.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Magnifico, February 12, 2007

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Lupe Vasquez "BeastMistress" (Norwalk, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Las Cinco Personas que Encontaras en el Cielo (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Este libro es magnifico para aquellos que todavia estan en la oscuridad sobre the vida despues de la mierte. Yo perdi a mi mama en 2005 y tuve muchas dudas...hay un cielo...estara feliz. Despues de leer este libro, me senti mas calmada...con paz. Albom pinta un cielo aceptable para todos...el cielo depende de lo que uno considera el cielo. Para mi mama, es un lugar donde te vistes elegantemente and vas a lugares a compartir risas, amistad, etc...esto es lo que hacia mi mama feliz y el cielo es el lugar donde estas completamente feliz. Albom nos muestra una vida despues de la muerte aunque en forma de cuento. Mi unica critica es el principio del libro que camina lento pero uno tiene que tener paciencia para llegar a lo bueno