An outstanding collection of award-winning books and authors Santillana USA has compiled a selection of the most popular books in Spanish under the Alfaguara imprint. The world-renowned authors cover a range of genres including novels, short stories, anthologies, and poetry.A prisoner is offered the option of serving a lifetime sentence in prison or at a zoo as part of an experiment. He chooses the zoo. There he has all of the luxuries one can hope for, but he must stay inside his cage. He becomes the center of attraction to zoo visitors, the media, and scientists, and he begins to develop friendships with those that form part of his everyday life. The plot winds towards the tragic ending, at once inexorable and surprising.