{"product_id":"when-breath-becomes-air-2","title":"When Breath Becomes Air","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat makes a life worth living?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, People,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003ci\u003e, The Washington Post, Slate, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, BookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of the Past Two Decades • A\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of the Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crosswordbooks.uae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137705218123,"sku":"BK0009712","price":44.96,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0646\/4877\/3707\/files\/9781984801821.jpg?v=1779861364","url":"https:\/\/crosswordbooks.ae\/products\/when-breath-becomes-air-2","provider":"Crossword Dubai","version":"1.0","type":"link"}