The Seventh Breath (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Ancestral Living Press, 2026
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Paperback. Seven days. Seven conversations. One question neither man can escape.Dr Rowan has spent his life beside the dying.He knows the signs. He knows what the body does when it begins to fail. He knows when to speak, when to remain silent, and how to offer comfort when medicine has reached its limits.What he does not know is how to face the unfinished parts of his own life.When Rowan is summoned to a remote monastery to meet Brother Anselm, an elderly monk approaching death, he expects a medical consultation. Anselm has refused hospital treatment and appears to have accepted what is coming.But the monk has not asked Rowan there to save him.And he is not nearly as certain about death as Rowan first believes.What begins as a simple visit becomes seven conversations over seven days.A doctor who has learned to hide behind competence meets a monk who has learned to hide behind wisdom.Slowly, those protections begin to fall away.Their conversations move through fear and faith, grief and family, silence and presence, the people we have failed to love well, and the comforting belief that there will always be more time.Rowan has accompanied hundreds of people towards death, yet Anselm begins to make him question whether he has truly been present for any of them.Anselm has spent a lifetime contemplating mortality, yet as his own death approaches, he must confront a truth that years of prayer have not erased: He is afraid.Neither man has the answers the other hoped to find.Perhaps that is why they need each other.Quiet, intimate and deeply human, The Seventh Breath is a contemplative novel about two men meeting at the boundary between medicine and faith, certainty and doubt, holding on and letting go.It is a story about the places intelligent people learn to hide.About the conversations we postpone.About the words we leave unsaid.And about what can happen when, for a moment, we stop trying to fix one another and simply remain.For readers drawn to the simplicity and spiritual depth of The Alchemist, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and other timeless stories that ask us to look again at the way we are living, The Seventh Breath offers no instructions and promises no easy answers.Only seven days.Two men.And the possibility that sometimes we must come very close to death before we remember how to live.Are you breathing now? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798235571464
- Título
- The Seventh Breath (Paperback)
- Autor
- Duncan Smart
- Editorial
- Ancestral Living Press
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798235571464
Seven days. Seven conversations. One question neither man can escape.
Dr Rowan has spent his life beside the dying.
He knows the signs. He knows what the body does when it begins to fail. He knows when to speak, when to remain silent, and how to offer comfort when medicine has reached its limits.
What he does not know is how to face the unfinished parts of his own life.
When Rowan is summoned to a remote monastery to meet Brother Anselm, an elderly monk approaching death, he expects a medical consultation. Anselm has refused hospital treatment and appears to have accepted what is coming.
But the monk has not asked Rowan there to save him.
And he is not nearly as certain about death as Rowan first believes.
What begins as a simple visit becomes seven conversations over seven days.
A doctor who has learned to hide behind competence meets a monk who has learned to hide behind wisdom.
Slowly, those protections begin to fall away.
Their conversations move through fear and faith, grief and family, silence and presence, the people we have failed to love well, and the comforting belief that there will always be more time.
Rowan has accompanied hundreds of people towards death, yet Anselm begins to make him question whether he has truly been present for any of them.
Anselm has spent a lifetime contemplating mortality, yet as his own death approaches, he must confront a truth that years of prayer have not erased:
He is afraid.
Neither man has the answers the other hoped to find.
Perhaps that is why they need each other.
Quiet, intimate and deeply human, The Seventh Breath is a contemplative novel about two men meeting at the boundary between medicine and faith, certainty and doubt, holding on and letting go.
It is a story about the places intelligent people learn to hide.
About the conversations we postpone.
About the words we leave unsaid.
And about what can happen when, for a moment, we stop trying to fix one another and simply remain.
For readers drawn to the simplicity and spiritual depth of The Alchemist, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and other timeless stories that ask us to look again at the way we are living, The Seventh Breath offers no instructions and promises no easy answers.
Only seven days.
Two men.
And the possibility that sometimes we must come very close to death before we remember how to live.
Are you breathing now?
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