by Isabel Allende · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807420955
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«La città delle bestie» is Isabel Allende's adventure and fantasy novel, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (242 pages, in Italian).
Alex travels to the Amazon rainforest with his grandmother Kate, a reporter for International Geographic magazine, to search for a Beast that paralyzes with its smell. On the expedition he meets Nadia, the guide's daughter, and together they face spirits, shamans and wild animals while trying to unravel the mystery of the creature.
Published in 2002, it is the first installment of the saga «Las memorias del Águila y del Jaguar», translated into Italian by Elena Liverani.
Suitable for young and adult readers seeking fantasy, adventure and a story with an ethical background.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
