by Isabel Allende · Debolsillo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788497935692
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«La ciudad de las bestias» is the adventure and fantasy novel by Isabel Allende, published by Debolsillo in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Alexander Cold, a fifteen-year-old New Yorker, travels with his grandmother Kate, a travel journalist, to the Amazon on an expedition in search of the Beast. Together with Nadia Santos and an indigenous shaman, he will discover a jungle where reality blends with dreams, spirits coexist with the living, and nature harbors extraordinary beings.
First installment of the «Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar» saga; the novel was originally published in 2002.
A suitable read for young readers aged 14 and over and for those who enjoy youth adventure fiction and magical realism.
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.
