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When Breath Becomes Air (Paperback): Paul Kalanithi

When Breath Becomes Air (Paperback)

Paul Kalanithi

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

‘A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living’ Nigella Lawson

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.

When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?

Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017

General

Imprint: Vintage
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2017
First published: 2016
Authors: Paul Kalanithi
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-199-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Medicine > Surgery > Neurosurgery
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with illness
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-78470-199-8
Barcode: 9781784701994

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