When Breath Becomes Air
The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller
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**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**
'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal
What makes life worth living in the face of death?
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.
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.
'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson
Kundenrezensionen
Without a pun intended this book is breathtaking
Glorious, the words of a passionate intellectual knowingly writing his last words. Every word well chosen, every description lovely described…..an enormous gift to all of us left behind, and to all of us soon to leave.