![]() ![]() ![]() Researcher and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee works in his laboratory in the Irving Cancer Research Center at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. You shudder and feel quite ill with what it makes you visualize. It is superb – and upsetting, depressing, riveting, horribly eye-opening and generally very, very hard to take in more than a chapter at a time. It was published in 2010 and won Mukherjee the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction – and a long list of other awards as well. It is The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. ![]() So which book have I read this year that I would call profound and totally brilliant? The answer is not a novel, though it could have been considering how dramatic the story is. Sometimes reading is work, and the more I read to review the rarer it is that I discover a book which will keep me intrigued time after time, and which I can praise wholeheartedly and make me simply say to others, You. The Emperor of All Maladies – A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Paperback: 608 pages ![]()
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