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When Breath Becomes Air

Author: PAUL KALANITHI
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When Breath Becomes Air (2016) tells the incredible story of Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who was diagnosed with and died from cancer in his mid-thirties. These blinks detail his extraordinary journey in search of the meaning of life in the face of death.

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After consulting with a specialist about his alarming symptoms in May 2013, Kalanithi was diagnosed with “stage-4 non-small-cell EGFR-positive lung cancer.” This news devastated both Kalanithi and his wife. After multiple cycles of chemotherapy, Kalanithi started to see improvement in his health.
Unfortunately this improvement was short lived. Kalanithi lost the battle on March 9, 2015.
This memoir was truly a moving piece of literature not only because of the tribulations of cancer but also due to the myriad of underlying concepts.
Kalanithi described, in his poetic perspective, life and death.
“Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”

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Weight .340 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 1 cm
BOOK AUTHOR

ISBN

9781847923677

LANGUAGE

ENGLISH

COVER FORMAT

Hard Cover

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