The Lovely Bones

"On the sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred seventy-three, when I was killed, I was fourteen years old"—this is how the most astonishing bestseller of the early 21st century begins, a tragic story written in an unbelievably bright tone.

“The Lovely Bones” has been translated into forty languages, sold in multimillion copies, and will serve as the basis for the next film project by Peter Jackson, after “The Lord of the Rings” and “King Kong.” In this novel, Susie Salmon adapts to life in heaven and watches from above as her killer tries to cover his tracks, while her family learns to come to terms with the loss…