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A New York Times Bestseller; Orange Prize nominee; a Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year; a Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Top Ten Best Books; and a Wellcome Trust Book Prize nominee.

“Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”―New York Times Book Review

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest.

Marina Singh is a research scientist at Vogel, a pharmaceutical institute in Minnesota, and inconveniently in love with her boss, Mr. Fox. When one of her colleagues is reported to have died while following up on the progress of a field team based in Brazil, Marina is dispatched by Mr. Fox to the Amazon to uncover the truth of his death. And his widow wants his effects. She travels to Manaus, then down into the Amazonian delta, deep into the dense, dark, insect-infested jungle. The research team is looking into the development of a new miracle drug that could revolutionize Western society. A local tribe has the bark of a certain tree, it yields a substance which allows them to conceive late into middle age: many of the women are getting pregnant into their sixties and seventies. The problem is that the team is taking too long: they have been silent for two years, and Marina has been tasked to find out what is holding back their progress. The second problem is more serious: the team is being headed up by the daunting figure of Annick Swenson, an eminent and fiercely uncompromising scientist who was once Marina’s colleague, and towards whom Marina has very complicated feelings. What Marina learns will change her life. In a novel that is packed with amazing twists and surprises, Ann Patchett returns with immense confidence to a broad canvas, teeming with atmosphere and characters and rich with narrative. Remarkable events--fights with anacondas; encounters with cannibals; deaths; re-births--and profound moral decisions come together in a novel that will enthrall her many readers and fans and is guaranteed to be a major bestseller.

Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels Bel CantoTaft, RunThe Magician’s Assistant, and The Patron Saint of Liars, Patchett delivers an enthralling, innovative tale of aspiration, exploration, and attachment in State of Wonder―a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011: In State of Wonder, pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Eccentric and notoriously tough, Swenson is paid to find the key to this longstanding childbearing ability by the same company for which Dr. Singh works. Yet that isn’t their only connection: both have an overlapping professional past that Dr. Singh has long tried to forget. In finding her former mentor, Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungle’s unforgiving humidity and insects, making State of Wonder a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down. Indeed, Patchett solidifies her well-deserved place as one of today’s master storytellers. Emotional, vivid, and a work of literature that will surely resonate with readers in the weeks and months to come, State of Wonder truly is a thing of beauty and mystery, much like the Amazon jungle itself. --Jessica Schein


Amazon Exclusive: Elizabeth Gilbert Interviews Ann Patchett

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love, as well as the short story collection Pilgrims—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ.

Elizabeth Gilbert: As your close personal friend, I happen to know that you traveled to the Amazon to conduct research for this novel, and that you sort of hated the Amazon--can you share a little about that?

Ann Patchett: I absolutely loved the Amazon for four days. It was gorgeous and unfamiliar and deeply fascinating. Unfortunately, I stayed there for ten days. There are a lot of insects in the Amazon, a lot of mud, surprisingly few vegetables, too many snakes. You can’t go anywhere by yourself, which makes sense if you don’t know the terrain, but I enjoy going places by myself. I can see how great it would be for a very short visit, and how great it would be if you lived there and had figured out what was and wasn’t going to kill you, but the interim length of time isn’t great.

EG: Didn't I hear that you have a sort of magical story about a friend who is also a writer, who was also once going to write a book about the Amazon? Can you share this miraculous tale? Also, is your writer friend pretty?

AP: This friend of mine, who happens to be you, is gorgeous, and much taller in real life. Yes, you were writing a novel about the Amazon, and then you decided not to write a novel about the Amazon, and then I started writing a novel about the Amazon, and later when we compared notes (your book dismissed, mine halfway finished) they had remarkably similar story lines, to the point of being eerie. I thought this must be because it was an incredibly banal idea and we had both come up with a generic Amazon novel, but then you told me that ideas fly around looking for homes, and when the idea hadn’t worked out with you it came to me. If this is true I think your name should be on the cover. It would increase sales significantly.

EG: Readers of your prior work--particularly the luminous Bel Canto--will be delighted to see that opera makes an appearance in this novel, as well. In fact, one of the most dramatic scenes in the book takes place at the opera. Is that a wink and a nod to loyal readers, or just an expression of your own deep and abiding musical passions?

AP: It’s a wink and a nod to Werner Herzog and his brilliant Amazon film “Fitzcarraldo” which opens at the opera house in Manaus where the aforementioned scene takes place. I had very little experience with opera when I wrote Bel Canto, and since then it’s become a huge part of my life. It was fun to write a scene set at the opera now that I know what I’m talking about.

EG: State of Wonder a rollicking adventure story, full of peril and bravery and death-defying action. I personally know you to be a homebody who likes to bake muffins for neighbors. How the heck did you pull off this wildness so convincingly? Was it as invigorating to write as it is to read?

AP: Ah, the life of the mind. All the adventure I need I can dream up in my kitchen. I love writing outside of my own experience, making imaginary worlds. If I wrote novels based on my own life I would not be making a living at this. I also love to write a strong plot. I want things to happen in my books, I want to be thrilled. I always think about Raymond Chandler. I’m sure I’m getting the phrasing wrong but the general idea is that when things get slow, bring in a man with a gun. If you can’t find a gun, a poison arrow works just as well.

EG: The cover is a work of beauty. Authors are not always so lucky. Tell us how you managed such a miracle?

AP: When I first started writing this book, I came downstairs one night and found my husband listening to “Horowitz at Carnegie Hall”. The album cover has a very lush filigreed border. I had two thoughts: first, I have an amazing husband who thankfully held onto his Horowitz LPs; second, that the album cover had the exact the feeling I wanted for my book--half jungle, half Baroque period. When I was finished writing the novel I sent the album to my editor, who sent it to the art department. They understood exactly what I was talking about.

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Starred Review. Patchett (Bel Canto) is a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they're made of. In this expansive page-turner, Marina Singh, a big pharma researcher, is sent by her married boss/lover to the deepest, darkest corner of the Amazon to investigate the death of her colleague, Anders Eckman, who had been dispatched to check on the progress of the incommunicado Dr. Annick Swenson, a rogue scientist on the cusp of developing a fertility drug that could rock the medical profession (and reap enormous profits). After arriving in Manaus, Marina travels into her own heart of darkness, finding Dr. Swenson's camp among the Lakashi, a gentle but enigmatic tribe whose women go on bearing children until the end of their lives. As Marina settles in, she goes native, losing everything she had held on to so dearly in her prescribed Midwestern life, shedding clothing, technology, old loves, and modern medicine in order to find herself. Patchett's fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure, a juggernaut of a trip to the crossroads of science, ethics, and commerce that readers will hate to see end. (June)

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0062049801
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper; First Edition (June 7, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780062049803
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062049803
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.17 x 9 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2011
    An author who has written a novel as luminous as "Bel Canto" creates a problem, both for herself and the reader. The author has created such a difficult high standard, the reader hopes for an equally engaging reading experience in all subsequent books. The stage is set for disappointment. Thus, even a very good book such as "Run" can result in vague reader disappointment.

    So, I approached "State of Wonder" girded for a similar reaction, especially in light of mixed reviews both from literary critics and from friends who had read it before I. As I got into the story, it engaged me somewhat, but I was well into the tale before I felt the same amazement and admiration of the author's skill as I had with "Bel Canto." Deep into the story, I began to see again what is for me Ms. Patchett's greatest talent. That talent is her ability to deal with serious life issues in a highly tolerant way, in a way that invites the reader to see the shades of gray, the nuances, in the life issues being presented. Just as in "Bel Canto," Patchett does this in "State of Wonder" primarily by making her characters very human in a way that allows the reader to "see through" their own initial reactions and judgments. For example, one may initially see the Bovenders as entirely frivolous and insubstantial. Yet, as the story unfolds one is lead to understand that at least Barbara has substance and qualities that soften the earlier prejudice. Marina may seem initially as weak-willed, easily manipulated, and afraid. Yet, as the story unfolds, the reader incrementally is led to understand Barbara's strengths and admirable attributes. Such subtle unfolding of character requires a writer of both great writing skill and a highly refined, non-judgmental understanding of human nature and psychology.

    To me the best example in the novel is Ms. Patchett's development of Dr. Swenson. In so many ways, Dr. Swenson is unlikeable and easily subject to quick reader condemnation for her apparent coldness, detachment, lack of feeling, and deception. Yet, as the story moves forward, it reveals her at a deeper level -- her motivations, her relationships with Easter and Marina, and her subjective experience with her pregnancy. Through Ms. Patchett's writing skill, the reader can begin to look at Dr. Swenson in a different light. Her self assuredness is punctured, and the reader is able to view her more humanely. One sees that the cold scientist is also subject to human emotions -- such as the non-rational aspects of the human mother's tie with the child, even an adopted one. One sees that Dr. Swenson's "argument" why Easter must stay in the jungle is simply a rational, intellectual assessment overlaying (one is tempted to say "hiding") the more fundamental human motivation of the "mother" to have the child stay, indeed stay with her. One sees beyond the intellectual argument to the underlying human need and love.

    Viewed literally, this story is quite unrealistic and perhaps may seem off-putting in the extreme to the literal minded. To criticize the novel on that score, however, misses the mark. One great purpose of fiction is to teach us about life, about what it truly means to "be human." The magic of great fiction is that an imagined story -- even one that tests credulity in some respects -- can accomplish that important and grand purpose better than a more realistic recitation of "the facts" out of which the imagination and skill of the fiction writer has woven the tale.

    I, for one, applaud Patchett, the skillful nuance of her art, and this engaging and human story. Her "gift of craft" gives us the gift of this story.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2011
    "State of Wonder" opens with "the news of Anders Eckman's death". Eckman, a medical researcher who worked for the Vogel pharmaceutical company in Minnesota, had been sent to Brazil to try and gather information about the progress of the research being done by another Vogel scientist, Dr. Annick Swenson. Swenson had been in the Amazon for many years, investigating a biological substance that appears to enable women to remain fertile for their entire lives. A lone wolf, Swenson refuses to provide much information to the company, not only about her work but even about her address. Indeed, she hires a quirky young couple from Australia, the Bovenders, to run interference between her and the outside world. When word of Eckman's death from a fever reaches Minnesota, it falls to his office mate, Dr. Marina Singh, to travel to Brazil and attempt to find out more about the circumstances surrounding Anders' death, and to bring word back to Anders' wife Karen, who is left with three young children. Marina travels first to Manaus, a large, noisy, dirty city that serves as a gateway to the Amazon, and then down the Rio Negro to Swenson's field station.

    Many reviewers have described this as a female "Heart of Darkness," with Swenson cast in the role of Kurtz. Swenson certainly shares some of Kurtz's defining characteristics: she's a nearly maniacally driven genius, she has little need for other people, and of course, she lives amongst indigenous people in a site that can only be reached by riverboat. However, she is also a much less evil person than Kurtz. Her relationship with the deaf native boy she calls Easter is particularly touching. Swenson is by far the best-drawn character in the book; only Marina comes close. Where it is Swenson's relationship with Easter that humanizes her, Marina's most interesting relationship turns out not be with Mr. Fox, the Vogel executive with whom she is having a love affair, but rather with Anders. Sharing a lab with Anders for many years has led to a set of feelings that Marina discovers only slowly, and after he is gone.
    Patchett can write lyrically and powerfully, describing scenes that linger. In "State of Wonder", these notably include Marina's Larium-induced nightmares that are pure expressions of separation anxiety stemming from a childhood in which her parents lived in different continents. Also memorable is an account of an encounter with an anaconda that occurs when a young native many and would-be Amazon tour guide decides to drag the snake onto his boat, thinking that this is the sort of stunt that tourists will expect from him.

    The book is full of external references, which in the hands of a less talented writer would be jarring, but which Patchett is able to pull off. My favorite, from late in the book, is this: "Of all the tributaries in all of the Amazon, he had wandered onto hers."

    "State of Wonder" is not perfect. It's very heavily plot-driven, and as noted above, some of the characters are quite flat. The plot itself has some implausibilities that detract from the story: for example, the fact that despite having lived amongst the Lakashi tribe for years, Swenson and her staff can barely understand any of their language. The scientists' study of the perpetual fertility drug raises potentially extremely interesting and controversial questions about whether there are limits on what should be studied, but the novel gives only a very shallow exploration of these questions. And the ending is unsatisfying: Marina makes a choice that would seem to have much greater consequences than it does. Despite these shortcomings, this is a good book that, more than anything, provides a rich sense of what it is like to be a totally foreign environment--and it's fun to read, to boot.
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  • Elaine Davey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to put down
    Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2023
    This book drew me in to the characters and plot and kept me on the edge of my seat until the end. Many twists and turns along the way!
  • Paola
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!
    Reviewed in Italy on August 21, 2023
    I loved every page of it. The story is beautiful and very well written, fully believable, and human, with very interesting ethical themes of pharmaceutical research.
    Do not read the synthesis as there is a big spoiler I wish I had not read.
  • Elena Rigby
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ich habe viel über das Leben im brasilianischen Urwald gelernt
    Reviewed in Germany on November 3, 2020
    Ein wundervolles, spannendes Buch mit interessanten Beschreibungen über einen Stamm von Ureinwohnern im brasilianischen Dschungel und einer Forscherin, die seit Jahrzehnten versucht, das Geheimnis dieses Stammes zu ergründen. Ein bisschen Liebe kommt auch drin vor und lehrreich ist es außerdem.
  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars State of wonder could have been better
    Reviewed in India on November 5, 2017
    The book is enthralling in its treatment of the story and its comment on the state of the pharma industry in the United States. Where it does falter is in its somewhat stereotypical treatment of what constitutes “ India” and its somewhat surprising lack of understanding of knowledge about the country. Of course the actual content on India is a very tiny part of the story but it does appear that Ms. Patchett has applied a broad brush stroke for the developing world in this regard. Also, the sense of closure that Run and Commonwealth have at the end of the book is missing here. And the loss of Easter is a very sudden event not fitting well in an otherwise wonderfully crafted book
  • Antony Simpson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book Review: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (from AntonySimpson.con)
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2016
    Review from AntonySimpson.com:

    State of Wonder is a masterpiece novel, written by true wordsmith Ann Patchett. Patchett is unbelievably talented and this book left me with a feeling of Wow.

    State of Wonder starts with the death of Anders Eckman, a Research Doctor for pharmaceutical company Vogel. He was in the Amazon searching for Dr. Swenson, who had gone AWOL.

    Marina Singh, Anders’ colleague, goes on a journey to the Amazon to uncover the mystery surrounding his death. On this journey, Marina will have to confront her past, learn the progress of Dr. Swenson’s research in the present, with the hopes that the life-long fertility drug will save Vogel’s future.

    But what she finds is so much more than what she expected. Marina goes on a journey that transforms her from within.

    State of Wonder readers will forget to eat, go to bed later than normal and completely lose track of time. Purely because they are driven to read on by all aspects of this brilliant story: the plot, the description and the characters.

    The complexity of the plot is utterly captivating, completely compelling and has some great twists. Every aspect of this book’s plot is strong: the beginning, middle and end. Patchett’s superb description in State of Wonder sent my imagination into overdrive and immersed me fully into that beautiful but deadly part of the world.

    Patchett’s characters are brilliantly crafted. Patchett explores a range ethical issues through her characters perspectives and gives some interesting points of view. These points of view are consistent with her characters and leave the reader plenty to think over, long after they have finished reading the book. State of Wonder is one of those rare books that leaves the reader feeling somehow changed inside.

    State of Wonder is beyond marvellous. It is probably the best work of fiction that I’ve read in years. If I had to rate it out of 5 stars, I’d give it 6 stars.

    State of Wonder far exceeded any expectations I had for it. My copy of the book had the old book cover which was both fantastic and appealing. I don’t know what the publishers were thinking with the new book cover (pictured above). It looks cheap and does nothing to attract a potential reader. If you’re thinking about picking up this novel, ignore any feelings about the cover and do. It is an essential read for any lover of fiction.

    I cannot heap enough praise on Patchett for this novel. State of Wonder will leave readers in a State of Wonder. See what I did there? Despite this play on words, that is actually how a reader will feel when he or she finishes the book.

    State of Wonder is available to buy on Amazon and at all good bookshops.
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