![]() Here, too, there are victories and losses, campaigns upon campaigns, heroes and hubris, survival and resilience-and inevitably, the wounded, the condemned, the forgotten, the dead. In a sense, this is a military history-one in which the adversary is formless, timeless, and pervasive. The book explains its title in its author's note: ![]() The Guardian wrote that "Mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically precise picture of what he sees, but a shiver too, of what he feels." Literary Review commended Mukherjee's narrative: "It is so well written, and the science is so clearly explained, that it reads almost like a detective story-which, of course, it is." Title The Emperor of All Maladies won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: the jury called it "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal". It was published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. ![]()
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