The Emperor of All Maladies By Siddhartha Mukherjee. 9780007250912

Siddhartha Mukherjee1st edition \n\nWINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011\nWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011\n\u2018Profound, eloquent and searching\u2019 SUNDAY TIMES\n\u2018Essential reading\u2019 INDEPENDENT\n\u2018Masterly\u2019 GUARDIAN\n\u2018Extraordinary\u2019 NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\nAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR\nRiveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece.\nThe\n story of cancer is a human one \u2013 a tale of chance discoveries, seized \nopportunities and human endurance. From innovative early surgeries to \nthe Curies\u2019 ultimately tragic work with radiation; from Sidney Farber\u2019s \nhugely risky discovery of chemotherapy to the author\u2019s treatment of his \nown patients, The Emperor of All Maladies\n is a profound and revelatory portrait of an enigmatic disease humans \nhave lived with, and perished from, for more than five thousand years.\nIn\n .