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It is a matter of life or death: that's a concept that gets our attention, whether chuckling over it in a B-grade film, or engrossed by it in an A-grade medical book such as this year's Pulitzer Prize winner for nonfiction, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

It isn't hyperbole to call Emperor a literary masterpiece. The Pulitzer citation describes it as, “an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.”

Delectable prose

“Elegant” is an apposite description of the New York-based oncologist's prose, whether he is rephrasing Tolstoy: “Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways”; or explaining the book's provocative title: “This book is a ‘biography' in the truest sense of the word – an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour”; or extrapolating, from cancer's ability to mutate, into the realm of philosophy: “If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.”

Mukherjee weaves together multiple stories about medical advances, doctors and scientists, and the patients who teach us something in the living or dying. Emperor is a historical account of cancer; we understand how cancer rose to prominence as a leading cause of death – as a direct result of human beings living longer now, and more likely to develop cancer. A greater understanding of the disease however comes with the caveat, the more you know, the more aware you are of how much you don't know.

Another doctor/author who combines the three key ingredients that make Emperor such an un-putdownable read — medical expertise, literary elegance and the ability to tell a story — is Abraham Verghese. His first two books, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS and The Tennis Partner are gripping and finely crafted — more, they are candid and compassionate.

In Country, Verghese talks of coming to Tennessee in 1985 as a newly-qualified infectious diseases specialist who gets so engrossed in the unfolding tragedy of the AIDS epidemic that his own marriage breaks up. In the second book, Verghese and his tennis partner, a medical student named David Smith, find comfort in the structure of tennis while trying to cope with a terrible divorce and cocaine addiction, respectively.

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