The reason Kate goes is to write an article about the Beast. Soon, they pack off to go to the Amazon with some professors and photographers. He is greatly saddened by the loss of his precious flute, but Kate gives him the flute belonging to his grandfather, 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-20's. Once Alex arrives in New York City, and finds out that his grandmother had no intentions of collecting him at the airport and is forced to walk to her apartment, several blocks away. Meanwhile, Kate announces that she will be taking Alex with her to the Amazon rain-forest during his visit. His sisters, however are sent to live with their Grandmother Carla. 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. Published in 2002.Ĭity of the Beasts begins with the story of Alexander Cold, who is 15 years old and going through a family crisis. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia's spirit guide, both young people are led by the invisible People of the Mist on a thrilling and unforgettable journey to the ultimate discovery.La ciudad de las bestias = City of the Beasts (Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #1), Isabel AllendeĬity of the Beasts is the first young adult novel by Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest.

Their mission, along with the others on their team-including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor-is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende.įifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime.

City of the beasts by isabel allende