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Sumkyŏl i param toel ttae : sŏrŭn yŏsŏt chŏlmŭn ŭisa ŭi majimak sun'gan / Pʻol Kʻallanitʻi chiŭm ; Yi Chong-in omgim = When breath becomes air.

by Kalanithi, Paul, author.

Sŏul-si : Hŭrŭm Chʻulpʻan, 2016.

Kalanithi, Paul.

Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.

Husband and wife -- United States.

Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Terminally ill -- Biography.

9788965961956 (hardcover)

8965961955 (hardcover)

281 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

"Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option ... Unmissable". (New York Times). At the age of 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 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 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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