Strážce času – Albom Mitch (2012)

From the author Mitch Albom, who has inspired millions of people around the world with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, comes his most powerful novel The Time Keeper - a captivating legend about the first man on Earth who counted time. In Mitch Albom's latest novel, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure the most amazing gift from God - time. He is exiled for centuries to a cave and forced to listen to the voices of all those who have sought him for years. Finally, when his soul is nearly broken, Father Time grants him freedom, along with magical hourglasses and a mission: the opportunity to repay his debt by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. While counting time began so innocently, it now dominates our lives, and we cannot imagine a single day without it. The inventor returns to our world and begins his journey to save himself with two very different partners: one is a teenage girl who wants to take her own life, while the other is an influential old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. This evocative prose carries...