When Breath Becomes Air

UGX 25,000

  • Paperback | 256 pages
  • 129 x 198 x 16mm | 181g
  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Vintage Publishing
  • VINTAGE
  • London, United Kingdom
  • English
  • 1784701998
  • 9781784701994
  • 664

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** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**

‘Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.’ Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal

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.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when 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.

‘A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living’ Nigella Lawson

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