If you've ever been touched by cancer or simply captivate by the interplay of science and history, "The Emperor of All Maladies" should be your next read. Mukherjee doesn't just map out the technical details of the disease; he weaves it into our very fabric of being, enlightening the more philosophical aspects of our battle with illness, and offering a window into the future of its treatment. This isn't just a book; it's a journey alongside humanity's formidable opponent.

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• Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2011)
• Guardian First Book Award (2011)
• J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (2011)
• Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2011)
• National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2010)
• PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2011)
• Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2012)

In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with – and perished from – for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge. Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.--4thestate.co.uk

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