Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....
| ISBN: | 9780141188942 |
| Publication date: | 26th October 2006 |
| Author: | John Updike |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 265 pages |
| Series: | Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |