When Breath Becomes Air

**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

Product details

• Authors: Paul Kalanithi
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.01.2017
• EAN: 9781784701994
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-199-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Cancer, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coping with death & bereavement, History of Science, Neurosciences, Coping with death and bereavement, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying