Brazil

John Updike

earliest edition we have, 1994 "VAGRIUS", 1996 301 pages

John Updike's sixteenth novel takes place in a stylized Brazil where almost anything is possible, if you are young and in love. Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach; their flight into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west. Privation, violence, captivity, and reversals of fort...

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Brazilii︠a︡ edition · 1996 · "VAGRIUS" · 301 pages
Brazil edition · 1996 · Fawcett Columbine · 260 pages
Brazil edition · 1995 · Penguin Books Ltd · 272 pages · 9780140236552
Brazil hardcover · 1995 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517158371
Brazil edition · 1994 · A.A. Knopf · 260 pages · 9780679430711
Brazil: Um Romance edition · 1994 · Companhia das Letras · 238 pages · 9788571643635
Brazil edition · Penguin Books Ltd · 272 pages · 9780140236545

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