WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
`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.
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.
'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living'
Nigella Lawson
Автор | Paul Kalanithi |
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Страници | 228 |
Корица | мека |
Език | английски |
Година | 2018 |
Дата на получаване | 14.05.2023 г. |
Издателство | RANDOM HOUSE |
ID на книга | 22321094 |
ISBN | 9781529110944 |
Категории | Биографии Книги на английски език |