The Emperor of All Maladies
Release:
11/04/2025
Release:
11/25/2025
Runtime:
22h 0m
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“A brilliant, riveting history of the disease.”
Entertainment Weekly
A New York Times Pick of Best Books of the Century
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Winner of the London Guardian First Book Award
A New York Times Bestseller
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A #1 Amazon Bestseller in Oncology
Finalist for the Audie Award for Best Narration
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 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, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
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 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, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Release:
2025-11-04
2025-11-25
Runtime:
Runtime:
22h 0m
22h 0m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
1.45 lb
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781668157282
9781668157268