Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847674272 (1847674275)
Publish date: April 24th 2009
Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Writing,
Essays,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Adult,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Short Stories,
Death
I think I enjoyed this book much more the way I read it. That is, I would read a couple of stories and leave it alone for days or weeks (as I tend to do with other books) and then I read a couple more chapters. In this book's case it made it more enjoyable.I loved most of the stories, although I adm...
There's better I say about SUM beyond that it is an amazing, thought provoking piece of work which draws on both spirituality and metaphysics (with a dash of religion, too) to comprise it's work. What we have here is 40 very short stories, each relating a conceptual idea of Heaven or another form ...
A little gem, the slower you read it the better.
Sum is a collection of 40 essays about what the Afterlife might look like. For example, in his title story Sum, everyone gets a chance to relive their lives, except with a different order, where similar activities are grouped together. So, you would spend 10 years straight just sleeping, or 5 days...
This is the second time I've read this book. The first time I heard about it was just after it was published. The book was mentioned on BBC Radio 4 and I was sufficiently intrigued to buy it. I have just re-read it for my book group. The short stories that comprise the book are clever, occasiona...
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