by Isabel Allende · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466384186
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«La ciudad de las bestias» is Isabel Allende's adventure novel, published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in paperback (294 pages).
Alexander Cold, a fifteen-year-old teenager, travels to the Amazon rainforest with his grandmother Kate, a travel journalist. The expedition encounters an indigenous tribe that lives in harmony with nature and faces the legendary beasts that give the book its title; amid dangers, Alexander tests his courage and his ability to adapt.
The work was published in 2002; the present paperback edition is from 2021.
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.
