Description
On Copacabana Beach, a chance meeting ignites a love that crosses class, color, and expectation: Tristao Raposo, a poor boy from Rio’s slums, and a pampered upper-class white girl who should never have been his. Their relationship is tested by privation, violence, and the tightening grip of forces determined to keep them apart, turning romance into a desperate struggle for freedom. As they flee toward the farthest reaches of Brazil’s wild west, the journey expands from urban life into a landscape where survival and wonder blur—suggesting that “magic” can be both refuge and threat. With John Updike’s lyrical, observant style and a keen eye for human longing, the novel explores love’s power to defy social boundaries, the brutality of power, and the fragile hope of reinvention.
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Published Jan 1, 1994
260 pages
ISBN: 9780140236545
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First Published
1994
Language
eng
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