2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller

A FRESH York Times Well known Book

A Washington Post and Seattle Instances Best Reserve of the entire year

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Emperor of most Maladies-a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart why is us tick” (Elle).

“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled visitors with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010 2010..LEARNING MUCH MORE on the subject of The Gene: An Intimate History That achievement was evidently only a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: A ROMANTIC History, in which he braids science, background, and memoir into an epic with all the current range and biblical thunder of Paradise Shed” (THE BRAND NEW York Instances). Within this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to comprehend human heredity and its surprising impact on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and options.

“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual suggestions through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, unexpected vulnerability, and occasional flashes of genuine poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s very own family-with its tragic and bewildering background of mental illness-reminds us of the queries that hang over our capability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to real life. In riveting and dramatic prose, he represents the generations of study and experimentation-from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human being genome.

“A fascinating and often sobering history of how human beings came to understand the assignments of genes to make us who we are-and what our manipulation of these genes might mean for our potential” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene may be the revelatory and magisterial background of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial research of our period, intimately explained by a professional. “The Gene is definitely a book most of us should go through” (USA TODAY).