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When Breath Becomes Air

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When Breath Becomes Air#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living? Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.Janet Maslin, The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living? “Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, People, NPR , The Washington Post, Slate, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, BookPage An Oprah Daily Best Nonfiction Book of the Past Two Decades • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century At 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. When Breath Becomes Air 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. What 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. Paul 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.’” When Breath Becomes Air 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. Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir

EAN: 9780812988406
Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen.
Erscheinungsjahr: 12.01.2016
Produktform: Leinen, Gebunden
Autoren: Kalanithi, Paul
Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 256
Themenüberschrift: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical~BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs~SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
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Fachschema: Sterben - Sterblichkeit~Tod / Sterben~Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung~Soziologie~Thanatos~Tod
Fachkategorie: Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen~Biografien: Wissenschaft, Technologie und Medizin~Philosophie des Geistes, Soziologie: Sterben und Tod
Imprint-Titels: Random House
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Text Sprache: eng
Verlag: Random House LLC US
Länge: 198 mm
Breite: 136 mm
Höhe: 25 mm
Gewicht: 327 gr
Genre: Importe
Herkunftsland: VEREINIGTE STAATEN VON AMERIKA (US)
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