| Publisher: | Random House |
| Genres: | Philosophy Of Mind Books, Sociology: Death & Dying Books |
| Authors: | Paul Kalanithi |
| Pages: | 256 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN10: | 0399590404 |
| ISBN13: | 9780399590405 |
| Tags: | Philosophy Of Mind Books, Sociology: Death & Dying Books, Free Books Download, epub Books Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | eBook |
| Type: | ePUB |
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
‘A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living’ Nigella Lawson
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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017
