by Alex Garland · BOLSILLO ANTIGUO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440696830
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«La playa» is the adventure novel by Alex Garland, published by Bolsillo Antiguo in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
Richard, a young backpacker, arrives in Bangkok seeking an authentic experience. A mysterious map leads him to a remote island where a community of travellers has created a utopian society. Paradise soon reveals its secrets and dangers, testing his freedom and survival instinct.
Original title: The Beach. Translation by Eduardo Chamorro Turrez. Spanish edition published in 2000; the novel originally appeared in English in 1996.
For readers of contemporary fiction and travel novels with thriller tension.
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).
