by Alex Garland · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725643709
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«A Praia» is the adventure novel by Alex Garland, published by Quetzal in hardcover (508 pages, in Portuguese).
Cult novel: Richard, a young backpacker in Thailand, receives a map that leads him to a secret and seemingly perfect beach. There he finds a community living hidden from tourism, but paradise has strict rules and a dark side that tests the group's survival and morality.
Portuguese translation by Mário Dias Correia; original «The Beach». Winner of the Betty Trask Award in 1997.
For readers of adventure and suspense who want to discover the novel on which Danny Boyle's movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio is based.
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).
