by Alex Garland · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422681434
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«La playa» is the adventure novel by Alex Garland, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (436 pages, in Spanish).
Richard, an English backpacker, receives in Bangkok from another traveller a map to a secret beach, legendary among backpackers. With a French couple, he ventures into the jungle to reach a community living isolated in that idyllic spot. There he discovers that paradise also has cracks and dangers that will test his idea of freedom.
The novel was originally published in English as The Beach in 1996 and won the Betty Trask Award in 1997.
For readers of adventure novels, thrillers and travel literature, with an exotic setting that shifts towards suspense.
Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author and filmmaker. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).
