When Breath Becomes Air 

基本信息
Format Paperback | 256 pages 
Publisher: Random House LCC US (08 Jan 2019) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 1984801821 
ISBN-13: 978-1984801821 
Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 1.7 x 17.4 cm 

内容简介 

全世界只有万分之零点一二的人会在36岁前患上肺癌，保罗·卡拉尼什（Paul Kalanithi）是其中之一。当你读到这本书时，他已经不在人世。保罗曾获得过美国斯坦福大学英语文学及人体生物学双料学位，并于英国剑桥大学获得科学史与哲学研究硕士学位，以优异成绩获得美国耶鲁大学医学博士学位，即将获得斯坦福医学院外科教授职位并主持自己的研究室。2013年，即将抵达人生巅峰的保罗，忽然被诊断出患有第四期肺癌。自此，他开始以医生和患者的双重身份，记录自己的余生，反思医疗与人性。他的文章刊登在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等媒体，获得了全球读者关注。本书文笔优美，诚挚感人，书里有着对人性、生死、医疗的深沉思索，让全球无数读者为之动容。
Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir 

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. 

作者简介

保罗·卡拉尼什 Paul Kalanithi，美国著名神经外科医生，作家。1977年生于亚利桑那州，获得斯坦福大学英语文学及人体生物学双料学位，后于剑桥大学获得科学史与哲学研究硕士学位,并以优异成绩从耶鲁大学医学院毕业，即将获得斯坦福医学院外科教授职位并主持自己的 研究室。在就任医生期间，保罗曾因其出色的研究成果，获得美国神经外科医生协会奖。

2013年，即将抵达人生巅峰的保罗，忽然被诊断出患有第四期肺癌。2015年3月，37岁的保罗告别妻子和女儿，离开人世，留下遗作《当呼吸化作空气》。

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.