When Breath Becomes Air (Paperback)

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‘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
LSN:	1-78470-199-8
Barcode:	9781784701994

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