当呼吸成为空气 英文原版
When Breath Becomes Air 获奖小说
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“读完这本书,然后就把它忘得一干二净,这根本不是一个选择……不可错过的《纽约时报》
书名来自于英国诗人BARON BROOKE FULKE GREVILLE的一首诗“You that seek what life is in death” （在死亡中探究生命的你）
You that seek what life is in death
BYBARON BROOKE FULKE GREVILLE
You that seek what life is in death,
Now find it air that once was breath.
New names unknown, old names gone:
Till time end bodies, but souls none.
Reader! then make time, while you be,
But steps to your eternity.
“我将死去，但我还活着。”
在本书的前半部分，卡兰尼斯医生讲述了很多他是如何从住院医生成长为熟练医生的趣闻轶事：第一次面对尸体（福尔马林的味道倒尽了他的胃口），第一次在同一天里面对生与死（他忍不住想起《等待戈多》[Waiting for Godot]里的台词“诞生横跨坟墓”）。从一开始，他就是个工作狂，同时也比大多数年轻医生更能理解病人的需要。
然后一切都变了。在那个确诊的时刻，卡兰尼斯医生为自己和妻子设想过的一切，乃至他曾想象过的崭新未来全都烟消云散了。他们应该要孩子吗？这会不会让他更难接受自己的死亡呢？（最后他们要了孩子，这本书就是献给他们的女儿凯蒂的）。要接受斯坦福大学那份他作为主要候选人的工作吗？没有接受。还有一份很好的工作，但是需要卡拉尼蒂搬到威斯康辛。那里离他的肿瘤医师又太远了。还有什么长期计划？好吧，现在长期计划意味着什么？他还有多久可活，一天？一个月？一年？六年？他听过那种关于活在当下，过好每一天的建议，但是当他不知道自己还有多少天好活的时候，他要怎样度过眼前的这一天呢？
《当呼吸成为空气》从一开始就引人入胜。但是到了后来，卡兰尼斯医生对未来一无所知，开始试着从很多方面改变自己，书写到这里就更加精彩。只有经过亲身测试，他才能估计出自己的身体还剩多少力量，这结果有时候很恐怖。他不再清楚自己是谁，自己想要什么。他的整个自我认同都在动摇。有一段时期非常恐怖，他的肿瘤医生不在，一个不称职的住院医生接待他，把他视为一个麻烦，而不是一个病人，没有给他开他急需的药，差点加速他的死亡。
作者的博学多才为这本书增添了不少冲击力。此外他描述自己的经历是如此精彩，也为这本书增色不少——他满腔热忱地工作、奋斗、延迟满足感，等待享受生活，最终学习如何死亡。全书毫无多愁善感，亦没有夸大其词。正如他给朋友写的，他的故事“已经够悲惨了，也够能让人发挥想像了”。而他的故事也足够重要，不容错过。
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?
Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.
"Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful." (Atul Gawande, author of BEING MORTAL)
"A great, indelible book ... as intimate and illuminating as Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal,” to cite only one recent example of a doctor’s book that has had exceptionally wide appeal ... I guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option ... gripping from the start ... None of it is maudlin. Nothing is exaggerated. As he wrote to a friend: “It’s just tragic enough and just imaginable enough.” And just important enough to be unmissable." (New York Times)
"Powerful and poignant." (The Sunday Times)
"Less a memoir than a reflection on life and purpose… A vital book."(The Economist)
作者保罗·卡兰尼斯(Paul Kalanithi)，斯坦福医院神经外科的住院总医生。
保罗·卡兰尼斯先后就读于斯坦福大学、剑桥大学和耶鲁大学医学院，曾是一名优秀的神经外科医生。36岁时，他被诊断出患有晚期肺癌，瞬间从治病救人的医生，转变为危在旦夕的病患。面对死亡，如何使自己有限的生命更具价值？在病榻间，卡兰尼斯从科学的角度思索了对人生的认识。他于2015年3月去世，终年37岁。
2013年5月，保罗医生给最好的朋友发电子邮件，透露自己已是癌症晚期，在人生的最后22个月里，享年37岁的卡拉尼蒂医生写出了一本超乎寻常的精彩之作《当呼吸成为空气》(When Breath Becomes Air)，它和阿图尔·加万德(Atul Gawande)的《最好的告别》(Being Mortal)一样，私密又令人获益匪浅，加万德的这本书亦是近期由医生创作的又一本非常受欢迎的书。阿布拉汉姆·沃吉斯(Abraham Verghese)在前言中写道，尽管卡拉蒂尼医生已经逝去，阅读这本书，就会感到他仿佛还活着，拥有无限的力量，去影响他人的生活。
PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philosophy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery’s highest award for research.
His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily.
Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.
Author:Paul Kalanithi
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage (31 Dec. 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1529110947
ISBN-13: 9781529110944
Product Dimensions: 11 x 1.6 x 17.8 cm
