When Breath Becomes Air (9781784701994)

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017

'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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 16mm | 181g
• Publication date 05 Jan 2017
• Publisher Vintage Publishing
• Imprint VINTAGE
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1784701998
• ISBN13 9781784701994
• Bestsellers rank 113

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