- philosophy, Neurosurgeons, Cancer, Lungs
When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Paul Kalanithi
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 232
- Publisher
- JC Lattès, Penguin Random House, Клуб Сімейного Дозвілля
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English, German, Portuguese, dan
- ISBN
- 9789752122567
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Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016.
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