When Breath Becomes Air

Présentation

At 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. When Breath Becomes Air is his answer to the question that suddenly owned him: what makes life worth living in the face of death? Written with a surgeon's precision and a poet's ear, finished by his wife Lucy after his death, it is a million-copy bestseller that readers press into each other's hands. Devastating, yes — but mostly luminous.