Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

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Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Author Isabel Allende
Original title El Reino del Dragon de Oro
Translator Margaret Seyers Peyden
Series Alexander Cold Series
Publisher Rayo/ HarperCollins
Published in
English		 May 2005
Media type Print ()
Pages 437 pp
ISBN ISBN 0060589434
Preceded by City of the Beasts
Followed by Forest of the Pygmies

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (El Reino del dragon de oro) is a book published in 2004 by Isabel Allende. This novel's prequel has the title City of the Beasts and its sequel is called Forest of the Pygmies.

Contents

[edit] Plot Introduction

The novel is about two youths – Alex (or "Jaguar") and Nadia (or "Eagle") – with a International Geographic crew that seeks to find the legendary statue of a dragon made of gold. Legend says that the statue will tell your future. A disadvantage is it is located in the desolate Himalayas. The second-richest man in the world has hired the Specialist to get the statue, hoping to foresee future stocks and prices. With the help of a tribe of the yeti, a monk, his disciple, the youths are in for the adventure of their lives. Little do the youths know who the monk's disciple really is.

[edit] Plot Summary

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[edit] Characters in Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

  • Alexander Cold – A teenager and the main protagonist of the novel. After having traveled with his grandmother Kate to the Amazon, he could not wait to go with her on her next adventure. He is a little full of himself, but has a really big heart. His biggest fear is losing his mother to cancer.
  • Nadia Santos – A Brazilian teenager and Alex's closest friend. Kate invites her along on the adventure and her father, Cesar Santos, reluctantly agrees to let her go.
  • Kate Cold – Reporter for International Geographic. She is characterized as unsentimental, but her love for her grandson is obvious.
  • The Collector – the second richest man in the world. Crazed by greed, he wants nothing more than to obtain the Golden Statue in order to predict the stock market. Litte does he know that the statue is completely useless to him in that regard.
  • The Specialist – a mysterious character who is hired to obtain the statue.
  • Tensing – a Buddhist leader who is in charge of training the young prince Dil Badahur for the throne and to be the spiritual leader of the nation.
  • Dil Badahur – the prince. Although he is quite young, he is mature beyond his years.
  • Tex Armadillo – a cowboy/hippie who is travelling on the same journey as Alex, Nadia, and Kate. he is a dubious character and Alex has a bad feeling about him immediately, in spite of the fact that Tex saved him from a crushing death in India.
  • the King (Dorji) – the king of the nation who invited the crew. A wise man who occasionally allows his emotions to cloud his judgment.
  • Judit Kinski – a cultured, well-travelled woman who the king hires to plant tulips, and then falls in love with. But does she return his affections?
  • Pema – a beautiful 15-year-old girl who, in an effort to save the kingdom, sacrifices her long, beautiful hair, along with some other girls. She and Dil Badahur fall in love and she becomes queen.
  • Isaac Rosenblat – Kate's jeweler friend

[edit] Major Themes

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