# Brazil

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- Book: [Brazil](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/brazil) ([Brazil.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/brazil.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-894-2
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2006-10-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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....