When Breath Becomes Air
A brilliant neurosurgeon gets the diagnosis he used to deliver. What makes life worth living, facing death?
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Le mot de POP LIVRE
Environ cinq à six heures de lecture, mais rarement d'une traite : le sujet impose des pauses. À réserver aux moments où l'on se sent solide, jamais en salle d'attente ni la veille d'un rendez-vous médical. Déconseillé à qui traverse un deuil récent ou accompagne un proche malade. Pour les autres, un texte bref, lumineux, étonnamment vivant, qui se prête à une lecture du soir, chapitre par chapitre, avec quelqu'un à qui en parler ensuite.
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.