by Isabel Allende · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007146376
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«City of the Beasts» is Isabel Allende's adventure and fantasy novel, published by Flamingo in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold travels to the Amazon with his grandmother Kate, an intrepid journalist, in search of a legendary creature called the Beast. The expedition confronts them with dangers, ancestral wonders and supernatural experiences, while Alexander and his friend Nadia discover the secrets of the jungle and the defence of its inhabitants.
First instalment of the trilogy «Las memorias del Águila y del Jaguar»; original title: «La ciudad de las bestias».
For young adult and adult readers who enjoy adventure in exotic settings and magical realism.
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.
