by Paul Theroux · RBA Coleccionables, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447302406
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«La costa de los mosquitos» is the adventure novel by Paul Theroux, published in 1993 by RBA Coleccionables, S.A. in hardcover (368 pages, in Spanish).
Allie Fox, a brilliant inventor who loathes industrial civilization, drags his family into the Honduran jungle to build his own utopia. The son, narrator of the journey, describes how his father's idealism turns into obsession and confronts his loved ones with a hostile nature, in an adventure that dialogues with Robinson Crusoe.
Original work in English: The Mosquito Coast (1981), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Spanish translation by Manuel Sáenz de Heredia; Grandes Éxitos collection, number 34.
For readers of adventure and travel novels with extreme characters and social criticism; also for those who remember the movie by Peter Weir.
Paul Edward Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name and the 2021 television series of the same name.
