by Alex Garland · Penguin · audioCD · ISBN 9780141801797
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«The Beach» is Alex Garland's adventure novel, published by Penguin as an audio CD, narrated by Steven Mackintosh (4 CDs, in English).
Richard, a young traveller in Bangkok, receives from a stranger a map leading to a legendary hidden beach in Thailand: white sands, a secret lagoon, and a community living apart from the world. Drawn by the promise of an earthly paradise, he ventures into the jungle, but discovers that this idyllic refuge holds unsettling secrets.
Abridged edition on 4 CDs, about 4 hours long. Published on 25 May 2000. The Beach won the Betty Trask Award.
For audiobook listeners and those seeking an adventure and mystery novel set in Southeast Asia.
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).
