{"product_id":"9781784701994","title":"When Breath Becomes Air : The ultimate moving life-and-death story","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Kalanithi, Paul \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/01\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784701994,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55382093529461,"sku":"9781784701994","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781784701994.jpg?v=1747388712","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781784701994","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}