The Emperor of All Maladies

01 March, 2011

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

HarperCollins,

512 pages, R499

This is the story of cancer—from its first documented appearance thousands of years ago to the battles in the 20th century to cure, control and conquer it. The book has been described as “a literary thriller with cancer as a protagonist”.

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