When Breath Becomes Air

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Beschreibung

<p><b>**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**<br><br> 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of<i> Being Mortal</i></b><br><br> <b><i>What makes life worth living in the face of death?</i></b><br><br> 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.<br><br> <i>When Breath Becomes Air</i> 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.<br><br> Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. <i>When Breath Becomes Air</i> is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.<br><br> <b>'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529110944

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

185 x 111 x 17 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd