From the writer who’s inspired a huge number worldwide with books like Tuesdays with Morrie as well as 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 person who became Father Time.

In Mitch Albom’s newest function of fiction, the inventor from the world’s 1st clock is usually punished for seeking to measure God’s greatest gift. He’s banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all about The Time Keeper who arrive after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, along with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is normally granted his independence, plus a marvelous hourglass and a objective: an opportunity to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.

He returns to your world–now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began–and commences a trip with two unlikely partners: one a teenage woman who is about to give up life, the other a wealthy aged businessman who wants to live permanently. To save lots of himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.

Told in Albom’s signature extra, evocative prose, this amazingly original story will inspire visitors almost everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it and how precious it truly is.