Description
Author: Paul Kalanithi
Edition Year: 2017
Cover: P/B
Description: 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?
Prizes: Short-listed for Wellcome Book Prize 2017 (UK) and Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction 2017 (UK).
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