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When Breath Becomes Air
A highest selling, critically acclaimed book selected as a Top 5 Best Seller by the New York Times, The Evening Standard, Observer, and Sunday Times.
The book got a 5 star rating from Waterstones.
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE DEBUT In 2018.
THE SUNDAY TIMES award-winning novel.
"I can't stop reading this book and will not forget about it until I finish reading it". Goodreads Review, 5.0 out of 5 stars."
At the age of thirty-six, after a decade of preparation and just at the start of his new job as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. He was a doctor taking care of the sick, and then the next he was a patient witnessing life during his dying.
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles the life of a physician, Dr. Paul Kalanithi, from medical school to neurosurgeon and then to a patient. This document reflects on the emotional and physical changes that exist in the brain as a result of Kalanithi's cancer.
When one is faced with death, what is really worth living for? What do you do when life is very affected (catastrophically interrupted). As you age, you see the arrival of children, are you able to take care of them?
The late Dr. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this deeply touching novel. While we miss him, his words live on with us all. The book When Breath Becomes Air, is a book that is symbolic of meeting our mortality, and the relationship between doctor and patient, by a gifted artist, who became both.
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