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 listeners and fans and is guaranteed to be a major best seller. 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. 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. 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. 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 60s and 70s. The research team is looking into the development of a new miracle drug that could revolutionize Western society. She travels to Manaus, then down into the Amazonian delta, deep into the dense, dark, insect-infested jungle.

Fox to the Amazon to uncover the truth of his death. 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.

Marina Singh is a research scientist at Vogel, a pharmaceutical institute in Minnesota, and inconveniently in love with her boss, Mr. “Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.” ( New York Times Book Review )Īward-winning, New York Times best-selling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest.

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