"With a marriage of architectural precision and luscious narrative, an eye for both the paradoxical detail and the unsettling irony, and a genius for locating the emotional truths buried in chemical abstractions, Mukherjee leaves you feeling as though you?ve just aced a college course for which you?d been afraid to register ? and enjoyed every minute of it" (Andrew Solomon Washington Post)"[Siddhartha Mukherjee] is the perfect person to guide us through the past, present, and future of genome science? It is up to all of us?not just scientists, government officials, and people fortunate enough to lead foundations?to think hard about these new technologies and how they should and should not be used. Reading The Gene will get you the point where you can actively engage in that debate." (Bill Gates Gatesnotes)"The Gene is prodigious, sweeping, and ultimately transcendent. If you?re interested in what it means to be human, today and in the tomorrows to come, you must read this book." (Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See)"Dramatic and precise... [A] thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial and, to borrow from the subtitle, intimate science of our time... He is a natural storyteller... A page-turner... Read this book and steel yourself for what comes next." (Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times)"The story [?] has been told, piecemeal, in different ways, but never before with the scope and grandeur that Siddhartha Mukherjee brings to his new history, The Gene. He fully justifies the claim that it is ?one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science.? ? Definitive" (James Gleick New York Times Book Review)

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Spanning the globe and several centuries, this is the remarkable story of the gene and an intimate history of the author?s own family, from award-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin?s groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we learn to ?read? and ?write? the human genome that unleashes the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. Majestic in its scope and ambition, The Gene provides us with a definitive account of the epic history of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans ? and paints a fascinating vision of both humanity?s past and future. "Siddhartha Mukherjee is the perfect person to guide us through the past, present, and future of genome science? Bill Gates ?A thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial and, to borrow from the subtitle, intimate science of our time?Read this book and steel yourself for what comes next? Sunday Times