THE TIME KEEPER

In the allegorical novel The Time Keeper, bestselling author Mitch Albom weaves a deeply moving parable about the most precious and fleeting human condition: time. The central figure, Dor, the inventor of the world’s first clock, is punished by the heavens for trying to measure God’s greatest gift. Banished to a remote cave for centuries, Father Time is forced to listen to the pleas of everyone who has ever sought more time, until he is finally granted his freedom along with a mission to return to modern Earth.

In contemporary New York, his path crosses with two contrasting individuals: a heartbroken teenage girl who wants to end her life to stop time, and a wealthy elderly businessman seeking eternal youth through cryonics. With his signature spare, evocative prose, Mitch Albom delivers a profound fable that invites readers to reflect on how they spend their moments and to cherish the true meaning of time.