When Breath Becomes Air
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
| UPC | 2030301006377 |
|---|---|
| Author | Paul Kalanithi |
| ISBN | 9781529110944 |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Weight (kg) | 0.2 |
| SKU | 2030301006377 |
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 in search of 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.
‘This is one of a handful of books I consider to be a universal donor - I would recommend it to anyone, everyone’
ANN PATCHETT
 ‘Extraordinary... Remarkable...luminous... Lyrical, intimate, insistent and profound. Kalanithi had the mind of the polymath and the ear of a poet’
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