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From the author who's inspired millions worldwide with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most imaginative novel yet, The Time Keeper--a compelling fable about the first man on Earth to count the hours.

The man who became Father Time.

In Mitch Albom's exceptional work of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years.

Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.

He returns to our world--now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began--and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.

Told in Albom's signature spare, evocative prose, this remarkably original tale will inspire readers everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it, and how precious it truly is.

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September 4, 2012
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“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.”
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“There is a reason God limits our days.” “Why?” “To make each one precious.”
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“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
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Mitch Albom is an author, playwright, and screenwriter who has written seven books, including the international bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time. His first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, was an instant number one New York Times bestseller that has since sold more than six million copies worldwide. Both books were made into acclaimed TV films. Mitch also works as a columnist and a broadcaster, and serves on numerous charitable boards. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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For Albom fans, this adult fairytale will inspire and satisfy readers in search of a more meditative approach to life in a fast-paced yet wonderful world Irish Independent The theme of the book is not so much that we should gain more time, but that we should spend the time we have more wisely. And in that there is certainly a message for us all Irish Catholic This is an unforgettable story, poignant, inspirational and beautifully written. Splendid Image magazine --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0087JTAKW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hachette Books; 1st edition (September 4, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 4, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1345 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 239 pages

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Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide. He has written seven number-one New York Times bestsellers – including TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years – award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. After bestselling memoir FINDING CHIKA and “Human Touch,” the weekly serial written and published online in real-time to raise funds for pandemic relief, his latest work is a return to fiction with THE STRANGER IN THE LIFEBOAT (Harper, November 2021). He founded and oversees SAY Detroit, a consortium of nine different charitable operations in his hometown, including a nonprofit dessert shop and food product line to fund programs for Detroit’s most underserved citizens. He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com, www.saydetroit.org, and www.havefaithaiti.org.

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Diego Rodriguez

great read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2023

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The asset of time is the only one that is worth putting energy and attention to. No money or material things will substitute time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2023

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Absolutely love this book! I read it a very long time ago and bought another copy to gift a friend.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2022

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Beautiful is the only word I can use to describe this book. Mitch Album has gone above and beyond in the writing of this book. He makes you see, as you should already know , the beauty of life and how precious each moment is. Beautiful !!!!! Read this, you won't regret it. It will make your heart swell.

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Tallioso

yay! i got them!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2023

thank you so much!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2022

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Fast paced, could not put it down
Edified me mentally and spiritually
Reaches across all ages

Where is the next one?

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Michelle Hoyer

"If only we had a little more time..." Well, we do! Most of us just don't realize it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2014

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When everyone is born, we are given all of the time we will ever need to accomplish our goals, find our true loves, and create the lives that will make us happiest. Unfortunately, measuring time in units of seconds, hours, minutes, and days do nothing but add stress to our lives and make us forget that we are never losing any “time,” it is all there; it just depends on how we use it. Similar to his novels The Five People You Meet in Heaven and For One More Day, Mitch Albom delves into areas of the human psyche we overlook everyday and challenges the reader to look past the bustle of everyday life and notice how much the little things matter.

Dor, a man who is alive during the creation of the Tower of Babel, has an interest in measuring, which inadvertently leads him to creating the measurement of time. Similar to the way Eve defies the Garden of Eden by eating the apple, Dor defies God by taking away the gift of living by the day and making humans measure their lives with Dor’s time instruments (i.e. sundials and clock). Because of this, Dor finds himself punished for eternity by being forced to listen to all the complaints people have about not having “enough time” and other phrases that incorporate the limited amount of time they believe they have.

To rectify his creation, Dor is told to change the lives of two individuals, one who wants more time and one who wants time to stop. The journey he goes on, as well as the two people’s lives he will change, show the way we must realize that time is only a measurement and should not control our actions or the way we choose to live.

The characters in Albom’s novel are incredibly relatable and make Albom’s message of focusing on the days we have, not the time we have left, that much more powerful. The way the novel is written is exceptional, in its delivery of the delicate subjects of time and death as well as the way we are reminded to appreciate those who love us, for when they are gone there is no turning back time.

The lessons that Albom has Dor teach the two individuals will stick with the reader for a long time, if not for the rest of their lives because each one of us tends to be someone who either wants less time or wants more of it:

For those who can relate to believing that the end is near or they want less time, Albom personifies through Dor that yesterdays are endings while tomorrows are beginnings, we cannot end what has not begun. For those who wish they had more time, they must remember that the concept of immortality, although tempting, should not be thought of as an immediate solution because knowing you will never die takes the thrill and joy out of everyday life and would be replaced with a boredom of endless, repetitive days.

Albom has outdone himself in The Time Keeper, encouraging the reader through the perspectives of three amazing individuals to stop looking at your watches and clocks long enough to realize that we can all live better lives if we start measuring our lives by the moments, not the seconds.

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JC

Knew it would be a winner 🏆 🥇 🏅 😉 👏

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2022

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Will always get Mitch Albom books. I look forward to the reading. I have never been disappointed. They always grab my heart strings. 👏 Bravo

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Time keeper

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2022

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The book was pretty good... is it my favorite? No. However II do recommend it because you can learn a lot from the book!

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roland

This book may make you think of Time in a different way

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 17, 2013

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'With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.'

===Sort Synopsis===

This story starts 6 millennia ago when a man first discovers how to record time and is banished and turned into Father Time.
Only in the 20th century is he released to make amends - ad he has two people to meet up with and work through their problems. A fictional fable about how we think of everything in relation to Time.

===My Opinion===

I have been quite a fan of Mitch Albom, enjoying his two other books, 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' and 'Tuesdays with Morrie'.
I quite enjoy time travel stories so when say this book was newly released on Amazon I decided to give it a try.
Like all other of Mitch's books it is written in an easy to read style. The chapters are very short and there are quite a few pages with just a few lines of writing on, so although the book is classed as
256 pages the actual story only takes up 136 of them and being short chapters as well you can read it really quickly. You could easily finish it in a day.
I am not quite sure what I think of this book and it was not until you actually got to the end of the story that you had any idea how things would work out.
The main character is Dor, who is clever and figures out how to record time with sticks and shadows. For bringing the awareness of time to the human race he is banished - but then comes back to save two individuals.
I am sorry to say this book did not grip me quite as the other Mitch Albom books did. I enjoyed reading it and wanted to keep reading the net page and the next age, but although it was dealing with how we think of time and how we value it, or not, it did not really resonate with me as much as it should have done.
According to the book 'everything happens when it is supposed to'.
You get to see a certain part of the future where ' everyone can live longer than we imagined. They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty'.
It is a moral tale to encourage people to value the time they have, and not to wish for the past or the future - tie is limited on earth - so that we value it more - ''There is a reason God limited our days - to make each one special'. For 'when you are measuring time, you are not living it'.
I did enjoy this book in its way - and am not sure really why I feel slightly detached from the characters. I would recommend this as a quick short read - quite enjoyable - but not quite as good as some of Albom's other works

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Gloria

Touching and insightful.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 4, 2017

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In Mitch Albom's fourth book he tells the tale of the inventor of the first clock. Thousands of years ago 'Dor' is interested in how time passes. It does have the name 'time' he just counts the passing by marking with sticks etc. He is punished by God for attempting to measure his precious gift and is banished to a cave for centuries. There he is forced to listen to the voices of all those who follow after him, all wanting another day, another year.
Eventually he is granted his freedom. He is given an hour glass and a mission - a chance to redeem himself by teaching 2 people on earth the true meaning of time.
Mitch Albom tells a touching story which everyone can relate to. This book is philosophical, touching and insightful - A true gem

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2020

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Highly recommend. Very poignant book. In this day and age.
How busy we are in today’s society. Always looking for that extra hour, another job off out to do list.
A truly lovely read.
Cherish your hours, your days, your weeks. Don’t waste your time - it’s precious.
Eat that cake, leave the chores till tomorrow. Who cares? Spend your time wisely. Because in the end it’s all you’ll have to count. Don’t regret what you spent your time doing.
Love, laugh, live.

Readerofchoice

Entertaining but slow at the beginning

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 28, 2014

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I enjoy Mitch Alboms novels, I find them somehow magical and intriguing. They all talk about trascendental matters like life, death and love. This one it is a bit slow to start with, but soon you engage with the characters and want to know more. The way it's been written reminds me of a play script, but works well. I think this book can be recommended to all, but you must be aware that Albom writes interesting stories but with god always as major cause for developments, which might not be to everybody's taste. Although I am an atheist, I enjoy his novels and find interesting his take on life and death.

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L4979

Important philosophies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 14, 2017

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This is a very readable book you can't resist turning the next page or just reading the next chapter. I love the philosophical morals within the story, time consumes our lives more and more with the assistance of technology. We can easily forget what is important in this world and also that we can take control of what we do with our time. It need not control us or our choices. Food for thought.

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