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City of the Beasts

Isabel Allende

  • 392 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2002
  • 60 editions
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1 About this book

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Good for readers who want: adventure, fantasy, and the supernatural.

  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
  • Adventure and adventurers in fiction
  • Exploration
  • Indigenous peoples of South America
  • Teenagers
  • Grandmothers
  • Supernatural

2 About Isabel Allende

Born 1942

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Spanish: ; born 2 August 1942) 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 (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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