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The Khao San Road, Bangkok—first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach".The Beach is a legend among young travellers in white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and freshwater falls surrounded by jungle. In this earthly paradise, it is rumoured, a select community lives in blissful innocence. For Richard, haunted by the glamour of Vietnam war movies, a trek into unknown Thai territory is irresistible. He was looking for adventure. Now he’s found it.
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In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveler rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travelers set out on a journey to find this paradise.
What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek
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Condition: Bueno. : Richard, un mochilero que viaja por el sudeste asiático, se une a una pareja francesa en busca de una playa utópica de la que se rumorea que es un Edén comunal. Sin embargo, descubren que la playa y su cultura no son el entorno idílico que esperaban. Esta edición es una adaptación cinematográfica de Twentieth Century Fox. EAN: 9780140288940 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Beach Autor: Alex Garland Editorial: Penguin Idioma: en Páginas: 448 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-11-04-7023b945
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