#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.”—The Guardian In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

Tom Lake

Audiobook performed by Tom Hanks Pulitzer Prize Finalist | New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed From Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, comes a powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.

The Dutch House

"Det holländska huset är en fin berättelse om syskonkärlek, om hur händelser i barndomen kan prägla en, och om hur man löser emotionella knutar. Det är drivet skrivet, en inkännande och sympatisk historia med stor klokhet." BTJ Ann Patchett är tillbaka med sin starkaste bok hittills: en djupt berörande roman om det oupplösliga bandet mellan en bror och en syster, deras barndoms hus och ett förflutet som vägrar släppa taget om dem. I slutet av andra världskriget börjar Cyril Conroy bygga upp ett enormt fastighetsimperium genom en kombination av tur och skicklighet. Hans första drag är att köpa Det holländska huset, en lyxig egendom i utkanten av Philadelphia. Det som var tänkt som en överraskningspresent till hans fru lägger grunden till familjens rikedom men också deras undergång. Det holländska huset är berättelsen om ett förlorat paradis. En mästerlig roman om arv, syskonkärlek och förlåtelse.

Det holländska huset

“Blissfully Romantic….A strange, terrific, spellcasting story.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Bel Canto…should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty.” —Lloyd Moss, WXQR “Glorious.” —The New Yorker Ann Patchett’s award winning, New York Times bestselling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett’s other novels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician’s Assistant, the author’s lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.

Bel Canto

""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined...and what happens when one is left behind. This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty and being uplifted by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.

Truth & Beauty

From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that is something of a magic trick in itself.” (Newsweek) When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years—learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the journey she takes, from sunny Los Angeles to the bitter windswept plains of Nebraska, will work its own magic on her. Sabine's extraordinary tale, “with its big dreams, vast spaces, and disparate realities lying side by side” captures the hearts of its readers and “proves to be the perfect place for miraculous transformations.” (The New Yorker)

The Magician's Assistant

From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, comes a hilarious children’s audiobook about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time, read by the author! The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat’s fault. Who’s to blame when Mrs. Farmer’s petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie’s party disappear? And when the whole bucket of paint is spilled? Of course, everyone blames the goat! But is it really his fault?

Escape Goat

A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself. 'A book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners'New York Times First published in 2001, Bel Canto is possibly Ann Patchett’s most beloved novel. Set in an unnamed South American country, at the home of the vice president, it is the story of a lavish birthday party honoring Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera’s most revered soprano, has enthralled the international guests with a mesmerizing performance. The evening is perfect—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But in Patchett’s skilled hands, what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion—and cannot be stopped. Now, more than two decades after this bold and artistically daring novel’s debut, Patchett revisits her early work. In this special annotated edition, the acclaimed prize-winning author opens the story to readers, providing enlightening commentary on her original version, including reflections on her narrative choices and style. A mature writer looking back at her younger self, Patchett takes us deep into her creative process and considers her career and growth as an artist, from that novel to her most recent, Tom Lake. Funny, full of insight, informal, and often unexpectedly moving, this annotated edition is an intimate encounter with a celebrated novelist, an opportunity to reconsider a great work through her eyes, and a guide for anyone who wants to understand how a novel takes form.

""The best graduation present on the market.... A wise, generous and compact primer for life that could well become a touchstone, readers will return to this book, and probably find something new each time they do; deserves to be given often and enthusiastically."" --Publishers Weekly Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, What now? From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant. As Patchett writes, ""'What now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life."" She highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination.

What Now?

“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People “Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston Globe From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity. As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she's forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness. Stirring and luminous, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss beneath the rain forest's jeweled canopy. Patchett delivers a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.

State of Wonder

A New York Times Notable Book “As resonant as a blues song. . . . Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”—New York Times Book Review An ex-jazz drummer wants nothing more than to be a good father in this moving family novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Dutch House. When John Nickel's lover takes away his son, Nickel is left only with his Beale Street bar in Memphis. He hires a young waitress named Fay Taft, who brings with her a desperate, dangerous brother, Carl, and the possibility of new intimacy. Nickel finds himself consumed with Fay and Carl's dead father—Taft—obsessing over and reconstructing the life of a man he never met. A stunning artistic achievement, Taft confirms Ann Patchett's standing as one of the most gifted writers of her generation and reminds us of our deepest instincts to protect the people we love.

Taft

""Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family."" -- Washington Post From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed. Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe. Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic Priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.

A New York Times Notable Book Acclaimed author Ann Patchett's debut novel, hailed as ""beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion” (Boston Herald) St. Elizabeth’s, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth’s extended family of nuns and an ever-changing collection of pregnant teenage girls. Rose’s past won’t be kept away, though, even by St. Elizabeth’s; she cannot remain untouched by what she has left behind, even as she cannot change who she has become in the leaving.

The Patron Saint of Liars

The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.

Commonwealth

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book Review Blending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett's life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer.

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Aistivoimainen ja syvästi inhimillinen kuvaus kadotetusta paratiisista. ”Romaani joka tulvii tuskaa ja hellyyttä ja jossa Patchettin kertojankyky näkyy koko loistossaan. Syvällinen, väkevästi sisintä kouraiseva romaani perheestä.” – Sunday Times Cyril Conroy hankkii toisen maailmansodan jälkeen perheelleen linnamaisen ylellisen talon. Satumainen idylli Philadelphian eliittialueella alkaa mureta, kun Elna-äiti jättää perheen ja paha äitipuoli ottaa talossa vallan. Sisarukset Maeve ja Danny karkotetaan kodistaan. Talon ote sisaruksista ei tahdo kirvota vaan he palaavat tarkkailijoina talolle, toistensa kotoisaan seuraan. Vuosikymmeniä kattava lumoava saaga näyttää katkeransuloisesti, mitä on petos, kutsumus, anteeksianto ja mitä on menetys – ei hulppean talon, vaan niiden ihmisten jotka tekevät siitä kodin. ”Liikuttava kuvaus poikkeuksellisesta talosta ja sitä asuttavan perheen murenevasta onnesta.” – The Times Ann Patchett (s. 1963 Kaliforniassa) on arvostetuimpia ja rakastetuimpia kirjailijoita Yhdysvalloissa. Patchettin kahdeksas romaani Hollantilainen talo löysi tiensä lukijoiden sydämiin ja nousi sekä Pulitzer- että Women’s Prize 2020 -palkintoehdokkaaksi. Patchett aloitti kirjoittajanuransa julkaisemalla lehtiartikkeleita lukuisissa lehdissä, nykyisin hän paitsi kirjoittaa kirjoja, pitää myös pientä kirjamyymälää.

Hollantilainen talo

Ihmeellinen romaani lujittaa Ann Patchettin aseman yhtenä Amerikan rakastetuimmista kirjailijoista. ”Kerro siitä kesästä käsittelee rakkautta sen monissa eri muodoissa. Mutta se kertoo myös kuolemasta ja kaiken ohikiitävyydestä – siitä, miten elämä menee niin nopeasti. Se on – – lisäksi lupaus siitä, että tapahtuipa mitä tahansa, taikuutta on olemassa.” – Los Angeles Review of Books Vuonna 2020 keväällä Laran kolme tytärtä palaavat perheen kirsikkatarhalle Pohjois-Michiganiin. Koko perheen poimiessa satoa talteen tytöt pyytävät äitiään kertomaan yhä uudelleen ja uudelleen Peter Dukesta, kuuluisasta näyttelijästä, jonka kanssa Lara jakoi vuosia sitten niin lavan kuin sänkynsä. Kun Lara muistelee menneisyyttään, tyttäret tarkastelevat omaa elämäänsä ja suhdettaan vanhempiinsa – ja joutuvat lopulta uudelleen arvioimaan kaiken, mitä luulivat tietävänsä. Ann Patchett (s. 1963 Kaliforniassa) on arvostetuimpia kirjailijoita Yhdysvalloissa. Hän aloitti kirjoittajanuransa julkaisemalla artikkeleita lukuisissa lehdissä. Nykyisin hän paitsi kirjoittaa kirjoja pitää myös kirjakauppaa Tennesseessä. Patchettilta on suomennettu aiemmin romaani Hollantilainen talo (2021, suom. Laura Jänisniemi).

Kerro siitä kesästä

Eine Villa zu besitzen - für Cyril steht das für ein besseres Leben. Doch als er von seinem hart erarbeiteten, ersten kleinen Vermögen das hinreißende Holländerhaus kauft, zerbricht seine Welt: Seine Frau erträgt den Luxus nicht und geht. Ein Schock für die beiden Kinder, und Tochter Maeve muss die Mutterrolle für ihren jüngeren Bruder Danny übernehmen. Die Geschwister werden unzertrennlich und sind eigentlich glücklich - bis Cyril wieder heiratet. Die Neue hat zwei eigene kleine Mädchen, denen sie, ganz böse Stiefmutter, das Erbe sichern will, vor allem aber das Holländerhaus ... Aus einer Geschichte, so alt wie das epische Erzählen, wird bei Ann Patchett ein facettenreicher, kluger und ganz und gar moderner Familienroman der Meisterklasse. Regie: Anna-Lena Kühner

Das Holländerhaus (ungekürzt)

Wie findet man das Glück, das ein Leben lang hält Es ist Frühling im nördlichen Michigan. Laras drei erwachsene Töchter kehren auf die elterliche Obstfarm zurück. Bei der Kirschernte bitten sie ihre Mutter, ihnen die Geschichte von Peter Duke zu erzählen, dem weltberühmten Schauspieler, mit dem sie vor Jahren in einer Theatergruppe namens Tom Lake gemeinsam auftrat – und mit dem sie eine stürmische Liebesgeschichte erlebte. Durch Laras Erinnerungen an ihre Jugend sehen die drei Töchter sich herausgefordert, nicht nur die Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter, sondern auch jeweils ihr eigenes Leben kritisch zu überprüfen und liebgewonnene Ansichten und Gewissheiten neu zu denken. »Der Sommer zu Hause« ist eine Meditation über Jugendliebe, Eheliebe und das Leben der Eltern, bevor sie Eltern wurden. Hoffnungsfroh und melancholisch zugleich stellt der Roman die Frage nach dem Glücklichsein in einer vor die Hunde gehenden Welt. Wie in all ihren Romanen kombiniert Ann Patchett erzählerische Brillanz mit nadelspitzen Einsichten in Familiendynamiken. Das Ergebnis ist eine üppige, leuchtende Geschichte, mit einer Intelligenz und emotionalen Subtilität geschrieben, die wieder einmal beweisen, warum Patchett eines der verehrtesten und berühmtesten literarischen Talente unserer Zeit ist. Vom Reese Witherspoon Bookclub empfohlen und besprochen! »Elegant, feinfühlig, fesselnd – es war so leicht in diesen Roman hineinzugleiten und so schwer ihn wieder zu verlassen. Ich hab ihn geliebt!« Bonnie Garmus

Der Sommer zu Hause (Tom Lake)

From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, comes a hilarious children’s story about a slide made just for lambs. Nicolette Farmer is running for class president, and the rest of the Farmer family tells her she’ll win by a landslide. A pack of overconfident lambs mistakenly hear lambslide and can’t believe there’s a slide made just for them. But when they can’t find one on the farm, there’s only one thing left to do: take a vote! They campaign. They bargain. They ask all the other animals if they, too, would like a lambslide. Will the lambs ever get their special slide?

Lambslide

Blandt regnskovens stammefolk dybt inde i Amazonas er forsker dr. Annick Swenson i gang med at udvikle et medikament, der vil kunne forandre kvinders liv for al fremtid. Projektet er omgærdet af stor mystik, Swenson nægter at rapportere hjem, og investorerne er ved at miste tålmodigheden. Anders Eckman fra Swensons medicinalfirma sendes ned for at undersøge sagen. Det eneste, der kommer retur, er meddelelsen om hans død. Marina Singh, kollega til Anders og tidligere student under dr. Swenson, tager nu af sted – helt ind i Sydamerikas mørke hjerte – for at undersøge det påståede dødsfald og for at finde ud af, hvad det er for en velbevogtet hemmelighed, dr. Swenson skjuler. Marina ved ikke, at der i dette ældgamle hjørne af verden lurer farer, som kommer til at overgå hendes vildeste fantasi. Den unge forsker må lære at navigere i et territorium, hvor fornuften er sat ud af spil – og det er kun tiden, der kan vise, om dr. Swenson har lært hende nok. Mirakelfloden er en fortælling om kærlighed, vanvid og frygt og om de dilemmaer, der opstår, når videnskaben kolliderer med vores forestillinger om fornuft og etik.

Mirakelfloden

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