When Breath Becomes Air

Name : When Breath Becomes Air| Author : Paul Kalanithi| Book Format : Paperback| Genre : Literature & Fiction| ISBN : genric| Language : English| Pages : 201-300 Pages| Publish Year : 2016| Publisher : mmix publlisshher| Sub Genre : Other Self-Help Books| Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times Evening Stttandard Observer Sunday Times Mail on Sunday and The Economist| | Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year| | THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER| | THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER| | 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times| | 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 nxext 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 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.| Country of Origin : India