Beyond the Islands (in Spanish: Más allá de las islas) is a novel by the Ecuadorian writer Alicia Yánez Cossío, published in Quito, Ecuador in 1980.

[7][8] The first version of the book told the story of a writer who traveled to the Galápagos Islands in order to forget about her marital problems, caused by her husband's infidelity.

However, noting that the novel had acquired many autobiographical elements, Yánez decided to edit it, remove the character of the writer, and include a unifying thread of the storyline in the figure of Death, which had become one of the author's obsessions at the time.

[6] The chapters are narrated in the third person and take the name of the character in question, with relatively independent in that they contrast the problems of civilization with life in the surroundings of nature in Galápagos.

Additionally, she referred positively to the use of magic realism and to the criticism that Yánez made of what she described as the "flaws of a civilized society", among which were counted ambition, religious fanaticism, greed and the feeling of needing to go to extremes.