Editorial Harperaudio
Fecha de edición mayo 2012 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780062119247
CD Audio
Ann Patchett raises the bar with "State of Wonder," a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle.
Research scientist Dr. Marina Singh is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have disappeared in the Amazon while working on an extremely valuable new drug. The last person who was sent to find her died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle in hopes of finding answers to the questions about her friend's death, her company's future, and her own past.
Once found, Dr. Swenson is as imperious and uncompromising as ever. But while she is as threatening as anything the jungle has to offer, the greatest sacrifices to be made are the ones Dr. Swenson asks of herself, and will ultimately ask of Marina.
"State of Wonder" is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss. It is a tale that leads the reader into the very heart of darkness, and then shows us what lies on the other side.
Ann Patchett es autora de varias novelas, obras de no ficción y libros infantiles. Ha recibido numerosos galardones, entre ellos el PEN/Faulkner, el Women's Prize for Fiction y el Book Sense Book of the Year. Su novela "La Casa Holandesa" fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer. Su obra se ha traducido a más de treinta idiomas. La revista TIME la nombró una de las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo. Vive en Nashville, Tennessee, donde es copropietaria de la librería Parnassus Books.<br> <br> También disponible de Ann Patchett en AdN: "Comunidad" y "La Casa Holandesa".
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