by Alex Garland · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241952375
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«The Beach» is Alex Garland's adventure novel, published by Penguin in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Richard arrives in Thailand seeking an earthly utopia and receives a map leading to a remote beach. There he discovers a secret community living in an isolated paradise, but soon the coexistence becomes unsettling. The novel blends adventure and suspense in showing how far Richard is willing to go to protect that Eden.
First novel by Alex Garland, winner of the Betty Trask Award in 1997. This edition was published in 2011.
For readers of adventure and suspense fiction with exotic settings and young protagonists.
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).
