by Alex Garland · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442447381
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«Der Strand» is Alex Garland's adventure novel, published by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag in paperback (445 pages, in German).
Richard, a backpacker traveling through Thailand, receives a hand-drawn map from an eccentric stranger pointing to a secret beach. Together with two other travelers, he seeks that hidden paradise, but the utopia they find has unexpected consequences. An adventure novel about escapism, idealism and the myth of paradise in an already explored world.
German translation of «The Beach», Alex Garland's debut novel originally published in 1996 and winner of the Betty Trask Award in 1997.
For readers of travel and adventure novels, and for those who want to discover the original work behind Danny Boyle's movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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).
