When Breath Becomes Air - The ultimate moving life-and-death story. Nominiert: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2017, Nominiert: Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Nominiert: Wellcome Book Prize, 2017. Nominiert: Pulitzer Pri
Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 256 |
Format | 13,0 x 20,0 x 1,6 cm |
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Gewicht | 184 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1784701998 |
EAN | 9781784701994 |
Bestell-Nr | 78470199UA |
For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live.
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__THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER__
'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal
What makes life worth living in the face of death?
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.
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.
'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson
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A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living. Nigella Lawson