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Foreword copyright © 2016 by Abraham Verghese

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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kalanithi, Paul, author.

Title: When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.

Description: New York : Random House, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015023815 | ISBN 9780812988406 (hardback) | ISBN 9780812988413 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Kalanithi, Paul—Health. | Lungs—Cancer—Patients—United States—Biography. | Neurosurgeons—Biography. | Husband and wife. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | MEDICAL / General. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.

Classification: LCC RC280.L8 K35 2016 | DDC 616.99/424—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015023815

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