When Breath Becomes Air

Author(s): Paul Kalanithi

Religion

'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. 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.

 


General Information

  • : 9781784701994
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.184
  • : January 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Paul Kalanithi
  • : English
  • : near fine

$26.00 NZD

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