When Breath Becomes Air av Paul Kalanithi

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<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 gift