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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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The book that fundamentally changed the way we understand the deadly disease — from Ancient Egypt to the present day — written by a trained hematologist and oncologist who also crafts beautiful sentences.

Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer.

Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an...

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