Swenson surprises Marina in Manaus, and they travel in a boat piloted by a young deaf boy named Easter to the rainforest research site, near the encampment of an indigenous people called the Lakashi tribe. Swenson's whereabouts are an Australian couple named Jackie and Barbara Bovender, who are tasked with hiding her whereabouts from the outside world.

Marina flies to Manaus, Brazil, and finds that the only people who know Dr. Swenson was given a blank check to conduct research into a new miracle drug, and refuses to inform him of her progress.įinding Dr. When Eckman's widow begs Marina to find out what happened, Mr. Anders Eckman, Swenson's colleague at a drug research site in the Amazon rainforest. Fox, CEO of the pharmaceutical company Vogel. Annick Swenson to Marina's boss and secret lover, Mr. Easter: young native boy who accompanies Dr.Anders Eckman: Marina's office mate, who reportedly died when sent on the same mission as Marina Fox: CEO of Marina's company, and also her lover Annick Swenson: a fierce doctor and researcher, and Marina's former teacher Marina Singh: Protagonist - a drug company employee who reluctantly goes to the Brazilian jungle to learn more about her colleague who went missing on exactly the same mission, and to verify her mentor's drug research It was critically well received, and was nominated for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction, among other nominations. The book was published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and by Harper in the United States.

It is the story of pharmacologist Marina Singh, who journeys to Brazil to bring back information about seemingly miraculous drug research being conducted there by her former teacher, Dr. State of Wonder is a 2011 novel by American author Ann Patchett.

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