Brazil

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TRISTÁO RAPOSO, A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD BLACK CHILD OF THE RlO SLUMS, SPIES ISABEL LEME, AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD UPPER-CLASS WHITE GIRL, ACROSS THE HOT SANDS OF COPACABANA BEACH, AND PRESENTS HER WITH A RING. Their flight into marriage takes them from úrban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west. Privation, violence, captivity and poverty afflict them; his mother curses them, her father strives to separate them, and neither lover is absolutely faithful. Yet Tristáo and Isabel hold to the faith that each is the other's fate for life, as they pass - in Shakespeare's phrase - 'through nature to eternity'. 'A brilliant performance' - Michael Dibdin in the Independent on Sunday 'Brazil... is written with such wisdom and clarity that every page of my copy is already heavily scored with underlinings ... his writing is truly wonderful, both for its style and its profound insight' - Angéla Lambert in the Daily Mail 'Updike makes mischief with a changing world that unsettles his... Tovább

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TRISTÁO RAPOSO, A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD BLACK CHILD OF THE RlO SLUMS, SPIES ISABEL LEME, AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD UPPER-CLASS WHITE GIRL, ACROSS THE HOT SANDS OF COPACABANA BEACH, AND PRESENTS HER WITH A RING. Their flight into marriage takes them from úrban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west. Privation, violence, captivity and poverty afflict them; his mother curses them, her father strives to separate them, and neither lover is absolutely faithful. Yet Tristáo and Isabel hold to the faith that each is the other's fate for life, as they pass - in Shakespeare's phrase - 'through nature to eternity'. 'A brilliant performance' - Michael Dibdin in the Independent on Sunday 'Brazil... is written with such wisdom and clarity that every page of my copy is already heavily scored with underlinings ... his writing is truly wonderful, both for its style and its profound insight' - Angéla Lambert in the Daily Mail 'Updike makes mischief with a changing world that unsettles his sensibilities and excites his imagination ... a tirelessly inventive tour de force - Time 'A fine and memorable achievement' - Carlo Gébler in the Financial Times 'Updike has always been able to make words do anything ... [Brazil] is as technically accomplished in its sleek story-telling as anything he has done' - Hanif Kureishi in the Mail on Sunday Vissza