La ciudad de las bestias by Isabel Allende

When Alex and his Grandmother Kate reach the jungle, they join the rest of the expedition group: Timothy Bruce (photographer) and his assistant Joel Gonzalez. The reason Kate goes is to write an article about the Beast. Soon, they pack off to go to the Amazon with a professor and some photographers. He is greatly saddened by the loss of his precious flute, but Kate gives him the flute belonging to his grandfather, musician Joseph Cold. She offers him pot and steals his backpack that contained his clothes, his money and his flute. In the process he meets a girl named Morgana, a homeless girl in her mid-20s. Once Alex arrives in New York City, and finds out that his grandmother had no intentions of collecting him at the airport he is forced to find his own way to her apartment. Meanwhile, Kate announces that she will be taking Alex with her to the Amazon rainforest during his visit.

His sisters, however are sent to live with their other grandmother. Despite his desperate pleading, Alex is sent off to New York City to stay with his eccentric grandmother Kate Cold, a reporter for International Geographic Magazine. While his parents leave for Texas to try to treat his mother's cancer, Alex and his sisters are sent to live with their grandmothers. Walden Media acquired the novel's movie rights in 2006 but no film has yet been produced.Ĭity of the Beasts begins with the story of Alexander Cold, who is 15 years old and going through a family crisis. The novel was translated by Margaret Sayers Peden from Spanish to English.

Published in 2002, the story is set in the Amazon rainforest.

City of the Beasts ( Spanish: La ciudad de las bestias) is the first young adult novel by Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende.

La ciudad de las bestias by Isabel Allende