When Breath Becomes Air
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Paperback 2 534руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Paul Kalanithi
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- Release date
- January 5, 2017
- ISBN
- 978-1-78470-199-4
- GTIN
- 9781784701994
- Weight, g
- 181
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**
'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal
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.
'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson