The Gene: An Intimate History Audiobook (Free)

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller

A New York Times Well known Book

A Washington Post and Seattle Situations Best Publication of the Year

From your Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All 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 readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010 2010..LEARNING MUCH MORE on the subject of The Gene: A ROMANTIC Background That achievement was evidently only a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, where he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the current range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (THE BRAND NEW York Times). Within this biography Mukherjee brings alive the quest to understand human heredity and its own surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual concepts through emotional tales…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, unexpected vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the storyplot of Mukherjee’s own family-with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness-reminds us from the queries that hang over our capability to translate the technology of genetics through the laboratory to real life. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research 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 individual genome.

“A fascinating and frequently sobering history of how humans found understand the roles of genes to make us who we are-and what our manipulation of those 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 important science of our time, intimately explained by a get good at. “The Gene is certainly a book most of us should go through” (USA TODAY).