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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ？ For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naive medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

[뉴욕타임스] 12주 연속 1위, 아마존 종합 1위 전 세계 38개국 판권 수출, 2016년 상반기 최고의 화제작 신경외과 의사로서 치명적인 뇌 손상 환자들을 치료하며 죽음과 싸우다가 자신도 폐암 말기 판정을 받고 죽음을 마주하게 된 서른여섯 젊은 의사 폴 칼라니티의 마지막 2년의 기록. 출간 즉시 아마존과 [뉴욕타임스] 베스트셀러 1위에 올랐으며 12주 연속으로 뉴욕타임스 베스트셀러 1위 자리를 지켰다. [어떻게 죽을 것인가] 저자 아툴 가완디는 “삶에 대해 많은 것을 가르쳐주는, 감동적이고 슬프고 너무 아름다운 책”이라고 평하며 그의 죽음을 안타까워했다. 죽어가는 대신 살아가는 것을 선택한 고뇌와 결단, 삶과 죽음, 의미에 대한 성찰, 숨이 다한 후에도 지속되는 사랑과 가치에 대한 감동적인 실화.