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WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR - PAUL KALANITHI KARTON...

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

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