Paul Kalanithi - When breath comes air (PB)
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This was selected as a New York Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year. It was short-listed for Waterstones Book of the Year;
The New York Times Number one Bestseller; and the Sunday Times Bestseller.
""Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable."" (New York Times).
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
Κωδικός : 9781847923677
SKU : 1717761
Εκδότης : Random House