Loved itthis is so interesting the like the Audi book was fantastic and that's how I read it... the way this is written is so good so interesting so many things that I knew and didn't know and yeah I highly recommend this
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The Emperor of All Maladies (2010)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
- ISBN:
- 9781508214243
- Length:
- 571 pages
Genres: biography, nonfiction
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Loved itthis is you know one of my one of my favorite non-fiction books I've read a lot of non-fiction this year and this is easily the standout winner of all the non-fiction that I've read this year it's an absolutely fascinating account of the history of cancer