by Alex Garland · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140258417
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«The Beach» is Alex Garland's adventure novel, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Young backpacker Richard arrives at Khao San Road, Bangkok, where a mysterious traveller dies and leaves him a map. The plan leads to a paradisiacal beach in a Thai marine park, where a select community lives apart from the world. Drawn by the promise of that paradise, Richard ventures into the jungle and discovers that the refuge hides a disturbing reality.
The novel was adapted into film by Twentieth Century Fox, as indicated on the cover of this edition, and won the Betty Trask Award in 1997.
Suitable for fans of contemporary adventure fiction with a thriller atmosphere and a Southeast Asian travel backdrop.
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).
