by Isabel Allende · 11X17 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720775245
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«A cidade dos deuses selvagens» is the adventure and magical realism novel by Isabel Allende, published by 11X17 in paperback (320 pages, in Portuguese).
Alexander Cold, a teenager, travels with his grandmother Kate to the Amazon rainforest on an International Geographic expedition to document a legendary creature: «la bestia». Alongside Nadia, the guide's daughter, he will experience a magical realism adventure in which friendship and respect for indigenous cultures and nature are essential.
First installment of the saga «Las memorias del Águila y del Jaguar»; originally published in 2002 as «La ciudad de las bestias». Nominated for the Gateway Readers Award in 2005.
Recommended for young adult audiences and for readers seeking adventure and magical realism, as well as for fans of Isabel Allende.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
