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When Breath Becomes Air

ISBN 
9781784701994
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R295.00
Published 
February 2017
About the book: 

This book is the New York Times Number One 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 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.

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