{"product_id":"when-breath-becomes-air-by-paul-kalanithi","title":"When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__ratingStats\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__ratingStats\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?'\u003c\/span\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Readifyy-Official","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":42591853740091,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"SAR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":42591853772859,"sku":null,"price":53.0,"currency_code":"SAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/8327\/1739\/files\/WhenBreathBecomesAirPaulKalanithi.webp?v=1762205192","url":"https:\/\/readifyy.com\/products\/when-breath-becomes-air-by-paul-kalanithi","provider":"Readifyy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}