by Isabel Allende · ARETE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401341663
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«La ciudad de las Bestias» is the adventure and fantasy novel by Isabel Allende, published by Areté in hardback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Alexander Cold, a fifteen-year-old teenager, travels to the Amazon with his grandmother Kate, a travel journalist, in search of a gigantic beast. Together with Nadia Santos and an elderly indigenous shaman, Alex discovers a jungle where magical realism blurs the boundary between reality and dream, between men, gods and spirits.
La ciudad de las Bestias opens the trilogy «Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar», originally published in 2002.
Novel aimed at teenage and young adult readers, especially those seeking adventure, fantasy 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.
