by Isabel Allende · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422650393
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«La Ciudad de las Bestias» is Isabel Allende's young adult adventure novel, published in hardback (100 pages, in Spanish).
Alexander Cold, a fifteen-year-old boy, joins his intrepid grandmother on an International Geographic expedition through South America with the mission of documenting the Beast, a legendary creature of the Amazon. Along with his new friend Nadia and guided by their protective spirits, he will discover the secrets of an unexplored territory.
First installment of the series «Las memorias del Águila y del Jaguar», an adventure saga set in South America.
For young and adult readers seeking an adventure with touches of magical realism and wild nature as a setting.
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.
