by Isabel Allende · ARETE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401015120
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«La ciudad de las bestias» is Isabel Allende's adventure novel, published by Areté in hardback (299 pages, in Spanish).
Alexander Cold travels to the Amazon with his grandmother Kate, a travel journalist, on an expedition in search of a legendary beast. Together with Nadia Santos and an indigenous shaman, he ventures into a jungle of magical realism where dreams blur with reality. Alex and Nadia's totemic animals, the jaguar and the eagle, guide them.
It is the first installment of the trilogy «Las memorias del Águila y del Jaguar».
For young adult and adult readers, the novel combines adventure, nature, 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.
