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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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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Memoirs

• Full title: When Breath Becomes Air
• Subtitle: What makes life worth living in the face of death
• Author: Paul Kalanithi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781529110944
• ISBN: 9781529110944
• ID: 20274389
• Publisher: Random House
• Weight: 144 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 488 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 2018

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