by Isabel Allende · MONTENA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788484411666
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«La ciudad de las bestias» is Isabel Allende's young adult adventure and fantasy novel, published by Montena in hardback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Alexander Cold travels to the Amazon rainforest with his grandmother Kate, a journalist who must write about the Beast, a legendary creature. Together with Nadia, Alex discovers a world of shamanic rituals and wild nature, and the expedition becomes a journey into the unknown.
First instalment of the trilogy Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar, published in 2002.
Aimed at readers from 12 years old, it combines adventure and fantasy for those seeking stories of discovery and nature.
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.
