by Isabel Allende · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422697305
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«La ciudad de las bestias» is the adventure novel by Isabel Allende, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (313 pages, in Spanish).
Alexander Cold, a fifteen-year-old American boy, accompanies his grandmother Kate, a travel journalist, on an expedition to the Amazon rainforest in search of a legendary beast. Together with Nadia Santos and an indigenous shaman, Alex discovers an unknown world where adventure will test his courage.
First instalment of the series «Las memorias del Águila y del Jaguar». Nominated for the Gateway Readers Award in 2005.
For young and adult readers who enjoy adventure novels and young adult literature.
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.
