When Breath Becomes Air (Korean Version)
- By: Paul Kalanithi
- Type: Essay
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- Categories Books, New Arrival
When Breath Becomes Air (Korean Version)
숨결이 바람 될 때 한글번역판
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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 naïve 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.
Details
- Hardcover: 284 pages
- Language: Korean
- ISBN: 9788965961956
- Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 1.4 x 1 inches