Jab Hawa Mein Basi Saans

At the age of thirty-six, neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi was nearing the completion of a decade of training when he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating dying patients, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation—from an eager medical student to a brilliant neurosurgeon at Stanford, exploring the very essence of human identity, and finally to a patient and new father facing his own mortality. This profoundly moving memoir is an unforgettable and life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death, written by a gifted writer who uniquely experienced life on both sides of the doctor-patient divide.