Heaven is ... what?

Be honest. Do you know for sure what will happen to you after you die? C.S. Lewis might change your ideas in his celestially themed book, The Great Divorce.

The Great Divorce is about a man, presumably Lewis himself, who finds himself at an unfamiliar bus stop, waiting for a bus to who-knows-where. The bus comes and takes him to a strange, beautiful, alien land, in which last is first and men are but ghosts. The man encounters many wise spirits in this land, who bit by bit help him to understand the nature of the place he has come to.

Though The Great Divorce is a book about heaven, Lewis never claimed that his book depicted heaven as it really is. Rather, The Great Divorce is an attempt to imagine the unimaginable, to prepare for the unexpected, and to compile the small amount of information that we have about heaven into a mere suggestion of what it might be like.

The Great Divorce simultaneously convicts and reassures its Christian readers, and will probably present them with new ideas about eternity. For those who are reading it from the viewpoint of another religion, the book may leave you with questions, and will certainly provide food for thought. Though The Great Divorce is by now an old classic, its ideas are ever fresh and surprising.