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Book Overview

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?"Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, People, NPR, The Washington Post, Slate, Harper's Bazaar, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, BookPage 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 na ve 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. Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir This description may be from another edition of this product.

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He never lost his faith in God and His protection.

Brother Yun and his wife went through so many trials. What would we do if we had that much persecution? This book will strengthen your faith in God. I appreciate the honesty in this book; especially from Mrs. Yun.

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Incredable

This man has a very crazy testimony and everyone should read it. From being beaten and imprisoned for Jesus to being miraculously healed and escaping prison! I read the whole book in 2 days and cried my eyes out the whole time. Be encouraged to give it all for Jesus!

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a chinese book of acts

Most amazing how the lord enables us to endure murderous, barbarous acts against our faith, freely expressed, in that Christ/Redeemer person, Jesus. Fervently sought, the young man sought and obtained a bible, impossible in China, unless you get the approved comunist version-christ the man only. He recounts where the Lord leads him then and now, living the faith-walk lifestyle. I was led to listen right through, daily, while-driving...

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What A Story!

Almost unbelievable - except for the fact that he knows the Living God for which nothing is impossible. Great story. Could hardly put it down.

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A must for Christians

I cannot explain how powerful this book is. I wasn't expecting anything, I bought it as an afterthought and just thumbed through the beginning. A few pages in, I couldn't put it down...seriously. I've passed it along to other believers, one woman read it and then re-read it in a week. Hands down, the most inspirational testimony I've read in twenty years.

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