City of the Beasts
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 321
- ISBN-13
- 9798217041220
- Type
- novel
About this book
City of the Beasts opens Isabel Allende's trilogy in 2002 at 321 pages, Allende's first foray into YA adventure fantasy, sending fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold deep into the Amazon with his grandmother in search of a legendary beast.
Key facts about City of the Beasts
City of the Beasts is a novel by Isabel Allende. Readers have had it since 2002. It runs to 321 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of City of the Beasts. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9798217041220 to find the main one.
City of the Beasts is book 1 of 3 in the City of the Beasts series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
That series sits on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, My Name Is Emilia del Valle is the latest published Isabel Allende book on file, from 2025.
About Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American author widely regarded as the most-read Spanish-language novelist in the world, best known for The House of the Spirits (1982), a multi-generational family saga that helped bring the magical realism associated with Gabriel García Márquez and the broader Latin American Boom to an even wider international readership. See every Isabel Allende book in order.
Its place in City of the Beasts
City of the Beasts is book 1 in the City of the Beasts series. It is followed by Kingdom of the Golden Dragon. See the full City of the Beasts reading order.
When his mother is diagnosed with cancer, fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is sent to spend the year with his eccentric, larger-than-life grandmother Kate, a magazine writer who promptly drags him along on an assignment deep into the Amazon in search of a legendary, possibly mythical beast. Alongside Nadia Santos, the daughter of their expedition guide, Alex is pulled into a world of indigenous mysticism, ecological threat, and genuine magic that his rational, science-minded upbringing never prepared him for. The…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9798217041220