Jab Hawa Mein Basi Saans / When Breath Becomes Air (Hindi) by Paul Kalanithi [Paperback]

At the age of thirty-six, nearing the completion of a decade of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day, he was a doctor treating dying patients, and the next day, he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation—from a naive medical student to a “brilliant” neurosurgeon working in the field of the brain at one of the most important places for human identity, Stanford, and ultimately into a patient and new father facing his own mortality. When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection by a gifted writer on the challenge of facing death and the relationship between doctor and patient—one he came to embody both roles of.