Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Sum In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. What happens to us when we die? And what does that tell us about being human? This title includes imagined tales that offer us a lens through which to see ourselves here.
Full description- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
- Published: 24 April 2009
- Format: Paperback 128 pages
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- Categories: Religious & Spiritual Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9781847674272 ISBN 10: 1847674275
- Sales rank: 6,463
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Full description for Sum
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages, in some you are recreated based on your credit card records, and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been. In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.
