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....
- | By (Author): John Updike
- | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Oct 26, 2006
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: Not available
- | Binding: Paperback|Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0141188944
- | ISBN-13: 9780141188942
- By (Author):
- John Updike
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:
- Oct 26, 2006
- Series:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages:
- 272 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback|Softback
- Language:
- Not available
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141188942