When Breath Becomes Air

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<p><b>THE<i>NEW YORK TIMES</i>NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER</b> <b>THE<i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><b>NUMBER ONE</b><b>BESTSELLER</b> <b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017</b></p><p><b>'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable'<i>New York Times</i></b></p><p>At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decades 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.</p><p>When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithis 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.</p><p>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?</p><p>Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all.<i>When Breath Becomes Air</i>is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.</p>

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<p>PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philoso­phy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neu­rological Surgerys highest award for research.</p><p>His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the<i>New York Times</i>, the<i>Washington Post</i>and the<i>Paris Review Daily</i>.</p><p>Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.</p>

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