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Publisher's Summary
Tackling the agonizing transition from skilled surgeon to bewildered patient, When Breath Becomes Air is an unflinching account of what it means to be betrayed by the body you devoted your life to understanding.
The New York Times number-one best seller.
At the age of 36, 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 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.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?
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.
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- Sandeep
- 19-02-19
It is a great book with profound moments
Journey of Paul is inspiring and sad at the same time. Poignant tale of a man who could have been so much more . However this is not a book to lament a journey cut short. It is a story of a man who loved life. He perhaps ended up living more than what many would who outlive him.
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- Mommyingtales
- 31-03-21
A story of resilience and courage
Courage is not just doing heroic things, but also in facing your own fears and standing strong against them. The story of Paul shows how an aspiring, competent and genuine person faced with terminal cancer can still find meaning in life and go on to impact the life of others positively.
I liked how the story captured his journey and reason for getting into neuroscience and then his relentless efforts to make a positive mark in his field. When he is diagnosed with cancer, his resilience to fight it, to come back to surgery and to go on to create this book is truly infectious. The way Paul and Lucy struggle and support each other throught their relationship and events is also heartening aspect of the story. The fact that they bring KD into the world speaks volumes about their positivity.
A great book to lift your spirits up inspite of showing the fragility of life. Audible experience was good.
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- Rukmini Iyer
- 16-01-19
very valuable writing
a beautiful, tragic, meaningful memoir that contemplates life in the face of death, and death as a reality of life.
1 person found this helpful
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- Vikram
- 17-07-21
An Heartbreaking tragedy
The fight of doctor against Cancer.
The doctor patient and patient (doctor) doctor discussions, decisions are heart breaking.
Death as seen by Doctor and Patient is the main focus of this book.
A really good shoet read.
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- marvin
- 10-07-21
My tribute to Dr Paul
A completing book about life nad death and great insights in to the life of. neurosurgeon. Dr Paul would surely have done great wonders in the field of neuroscience, however his book has given more insights into the struggle a patient has to go through when enduring a deadly disease such as Cancer. My Regards to Lucy Kalanithi who is such a brave companion for Dr Paul. May his soul rest in peace with the knowledge that he has truly been instrumental in expressing in words his entire life, disease, struggle and set a example of how to face death.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-06-21
Beautiful
What a beautiful Narration by both the narrators. I felt as if the Author himself is speaking.
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- Jolly Singh
- 14-05-21
as real as life can be ( and death)
This book will make you think about things you thought you could think about later in life.
It's written ( and narrated here) in a simple manner that makes you feel you are with Paul throughout his journey. you smile at his accomplishments and you shed a tear when you see him struggle.
he was a good writer since he could make a reader feel all these emotions. he gave me a lot to ponder.
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- manasi trivedi
- 14-05-21
Sublime expression
The depth of understanding, tumultuous internal struggle with morality and strength of Dr. Kalanithi is inspiration in itself!
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- Sagar
- 13-05-21
Thoughtful & very well written
I have been a carefree & healthy person, therefore death has been an abstract concept, something that affects other people. As I have become older, death has slowly become more real. I continue to struggle to find meaning in life and this book really helped me understand life & death a little better. Thanks Paul!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Bipin Raj
- 30-04-21
Must read book
Couldn't stop reading till the end. So many life lessons distilled in this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-11-17
An incredible journey
This book has helped me have a guiding light to restore balance when I become to immersed in experiences or too lost in contemplation "if an unexamined life isn't worth living then is an unlived life worth examining".
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- Anonymous User
- 25-11-19
Eye opening
Loved this book. Reminded me that life is short and has no guarantees. Always make the most of the present.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-08-18
Thank you for this book.
Thank you Paul for writing this book. It feels extremely authentic and honest. I have come to love you and your family through this book. I admire you.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-05-21
A beautifully written book.
This book and the lovely voices will live with me long after the last word.
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- Len Holder
- 24-02-21
Thought provoking
Loved it. Makes you think. I recently buried my father. This booked helped me coping with this loss.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-01-21
Thanks thanks thanks Paul
Life doesn’t give you second chances. Life is now. Live the present. LIVE now. Thank you!!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-20
This touched me deeply.
This is profoundly heartbreaking but reassuring that Paul lived his dreams, although not long enough. His book is achieving more touching and bringing people to the reality of life, meaning and purpose.
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- Tim Stone,Templehouse
- 01-01-20
You have GOT to read this!!!
Absolutely amazing. A gripping account of one brave Indian man’s life and death, completed by his surviving wife.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-12-19
Deep
The book has so much depth and makes you reflect on life and what we hope for
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-12-19
moving
one of the most moving books I have ever read. Paul must have been an amazing person
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- HN786
- 08-03-20
this book is about ambition not death
This book was supposed to be about death and whilst in the obvious sense it was, it was more about fulfilling life’s ambitions. I feel bad to write a bad review but the writing was mediocre, the story was nothing special and it was ultimately less about death and confronting it and rather more about writing to fulfil a dying man’s lifelong ambition to be a published writer. I didn’t like the strong American ambition; of working the body down to a pulp that this book describes persistently and then packaged it up as if it is a thing to be admired. This is not the way to live life. Indeed one of Paul’s friends Geoff commits suicide from the pressures of the medical profession. I hated how Paul’s oncologist encouraged him to go back to gruelling brain surgeries despite the fact that his body was buckling under the pressure and he no doubt became more ill because of the burden of his professional work. I admired Paul’s striving for excellence before his cancer diagnosis but after that the story takes a turn that I did not approve of. Reading (or rather listening to) this was incredibly depressing, it did not inspire any hope of a life after death. For more inspiring literary works on this topic, I would recommend readers obtain the rather more shorter beauty (barely 70 pages), A Grief Observed, written by C S Lewis. I believe this is the text that his wife Lucy even cited from at the end in her epilogue. There is a far greater wealth of literature on death that is more inspiring than this book. Throughout this book the writing teetered on the spectrum between sounding too clinical or trying too hard to sound poetic with descriptions about the moonlight or some other such descriptive that added no value or weight to the words being expressed. There was a disconnect and lack of tangible human vulnerability. I didn’t *feel* his ordeal through the language he used to express himself. I highly doubt that he didn’t have those emotions within him which is why I felt disappointed by the book and all that it was supposed to represent. If the book had had less hype attached to it perhaps I would not have been so disappointed. But this was a mediocre book and not one that I would recommend when there’s far better literature on death. If I were a neurologist perhaps I’d take keener interest in reading his medical publications but Paul’s writing style leaves a reader like me with much to be desired.
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- Angie
- 25-03-16
Deeply touching & a story of bravery
Initially when I chose this book on audio version, I didn't know what to expect.
This book took me through love, strength as a person, couple, family, integrity of the patient but also of Lucy who stood by him relentlessly through each day.
Rest in peace, people like you are rare.
7 people found this helpful
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- Vivian
- 27-09-16
Lovely insight into a doctor becoming a patient
I think I cried through most of this book. It is very thought provoking as a doctor, as a surgeon, to rethink what makes me a doctor and what would I be if I am no longer a doctor.
It also describe from a doctor's point of view how it feels like to become a patient.
10 people found this helpful
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- Diana W.
- 04-01-17
An inspirational book
An account both deeply personal and universally resonant, of living life, and seeking meaning, in the face of death. The memoirs of a man dying at 35, Paul Kalanithi reflects on his early love of literature combined with his discovery of science, and his intuition that both are essential in understanding the meaning of human existence. Later training as a doctor and practice as a neurosurgeon drew him to engage deeply with questions of meaning in the lives, suffering and deaths of his patients and their families, until, with a diagnosis of terminal cancer, he was forced to confront these existential questions most powerfully, painfully and profoundly, in his own life. A moving and inspiring book. Very well narrated.
4 people found this helpful
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- Nash Hon
- 02-10-16
Powerful book
Very rarely, a book comes along that makes you pause and think about what you're doing with your life and what you want to do with it.
This is one of them and it's one of the best. Painful yet absolutely inspiring.
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- C
- 19-11-16
My book of the year
I would recommend this book to anyone who is
A) thinking of joining the medical profession
B) currently deals with patients in any professional capacity.
C) is currently or has been a patient
This book truly is a gift and a reminder of our shared humanity. Thank you to Paul & his family for writing about and sharing their very personal experiences and to the buyers at Audible/ Amazon for making it available in this format. My life is the richer for it.
3 people found this helpful
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- Jack Wright
- 14-02-19
That, that was something else.
A very special book that is more than the culmination of its words on a page.
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- Colm O' Leary
- 01-11-18
Beautiful, poignant and meaningful
I listened in one sitting. Really moving and emotive. I cried and smiled like a baby
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- luke
- 17-08-16
Brilliant, emotional, needed
This book is so well written. It has helped me in so many ways. Thank you
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- Jenny
- 04-04-16
One of the best books I have ever read
Such an insightful and heart rendering look at lung cancer. Enjoyed every minute of listening to the book.
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- Kunal Kumar
- 10-01-21
Moving and powerful!
This memoir by Dr Paul Kalanithi takes the reader on a short yet powerful journey through his illness, his mental stage and the last few years of his life!
Just finished it and I have no words, so not going to write more in this review!
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- Stacy
- 11-11-20
Truly beautiful
This book was a prescribed book by my uni and at first, I believed I would be bored by it. I was pleasantly surprised. Cried many times in the book, discovered areas in my own life where I could be doing things differently, and gave me a better understanding of what people go through when dealing with a terminal illness. Loved the story and the narration was well done.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-11-20
Cried it was so beautiful
Meaningful and beautifully written, moved me at my core and showed a different way of looking at life. Short and great read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-05-20
I am a doctor! I have cancer.
Great book in three parts. An audiobook well presented, better than the book itself.
The highlight for me was the last part by his wife. She as a ‘non’ writer captured her story in a way that the narrative stays with you, nesting deeply in your heart and mind.
Paul himself tried to hard to be a writer...a doctor with cancer. No more than my doctor friends that committed suicide, died in a car crash, those died of cancer and those died on the battlefield or mission trips. I could not get lost in HIS life story...Why not? When writing a story, biography about something with a message, it’s about the message or lesson, not about you.
The cancer in a physician suffering and deeper meaning was smothered by the ME. Thus not enough about IT and to much about the I.
Thoughts by a doctor myself...not I but it, the entity.
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- Carol
- 09-07-16
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- Anonymous User
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Thoughtful and intentional
I would recommend this book to anyone. It’s healthy to walk a while with someone in the clarity of their mortality, and this particular person is uniquely placed to comment on the experience. He does so masterfully!
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- Anonymous User
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Beautifully heartwrentching
Read this book. It will impact how you view your allotment of time on this earth.
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- Toni
- 03-04-21
Incredible story
Always wanted to read this and it did not disappoint.
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- James M
- 14-03-21
Did not enjoy
Narration is absolutely awful, just completely monotone. Story was slow. Do not get the hype unfortunately.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-10-20
Highly recommended
Beautifully written, deeply moving. Shifted my perspective on how I look at my own life. Time flies with this audio version.