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  • Published: 24 November 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188942
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99

Brazil




First time in PMC

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....

  • Published: 24 November 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188942
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

John Updike

JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.

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