When Breath Becomes Air : The ultimate moving life-and-death story
Kshs 1,400.00
‘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.
- Classifications:Memoirs
- Format:Paperback
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ISBN : 9781529110944
Published : 31 Dec 2018
Author : Paul Kalanithi
Language : English
Main Material : Paperback
Publisher : Random House
Size : 176 x 111 x 18 (mm)
Weight : 142g
3 in stock
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