For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live.
PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in
English literature, human biology, and history and philoso-phy of
science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities
before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received
the American Academy of Neu-rological Surgery's highest award for
research.
His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the
New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily.
Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife,
Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.
A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory
reading for the living.
*Nigella Lawson*
Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.
*Atul Gawande, author of BEING MORTAL*
A great, indelible book ... as intimate and illuminating as Atul
Gawande’s “Being Mortal,” to cite only one recent example of a
doctor’s book that has had exceptionally wide appeal ... I
guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is
simply not an option ... gripping from the start ... None of it is
maudlin. Nothing is exaggerated. As he wrote to a friend: “It’s
just tragic enough and just imaginable enough.” And just important
enough to be unmissable.
*New York Times*
Powerful and poignant.
*The Sunday Times*
Less a memoir than a reflection on life and purpose… A vital
book.
*The Economist*
Extraordinary...Remarkable... luminous, revelatory memoir about
mortality and what makes being alive meaningful ... Lyrical,
intimate, insistent and profound. Kalanithi had the mind of the
polymath and the ear of a poet.
*Daily Telegraph*
Powerful and poignant… Elegantly written posthumous memoir… Should
be compulsory for anyone who intends to be a doctor… A profound
reflection on the meaning of life.
*Sunday Times*
A stark, fascinating, well-written and heroic memoir.
*The Times*
Exceptional.
*Evening Standard*
When I came to the end of the last flawless paragraph of When
Breath Becomes Air, all I could do was turn to the first page and
read the whole thing again. Searingly intelligent, beautifully
written, and beyond brave, I haven't been so marked by a book in
years.
*Gabriel Weston, author of DIRECT RED*
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