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Brazil is a 1994 novel by the American author John Updike. It contains many elements of magical realism. It is a retelling of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde, the subject of many works in opera and ballet.
1 de ene. de 2001 · The richest and most sensual novel in years from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Rabbit series. Two young, beautiful lovers, a black child of the Rio slums and a pampered upper-class white girl, endure privation, violence, and captivity to be together. Genres FictionBrazilMagical RealismAmericanNovels Literary FictionClassics. ...more.
19 de nov. de 2019 · Get to know this country through these must-read books about Brazil, featuring historical satires, ultra-realism classics, nonfiction, and more.
About Brazil. A page-turning novel about a Black teen from the Rio slums and an upper-class white girl who are brought together by fate and betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. “Steamy…breathtaking.”—The New Yorker.
27 de ago. de 1996 · A page-turning novel about a Black teen from the Rio slums and an upper-class white girl who are brought together by fate and betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.
Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the late eighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence."A tour de force . . . Spectacular." --Time"Updike's novel, as tender as it is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . . Beautifully written."
18 de may. de 2016 · This short, intense novel explores much: the frailty of the law (labor regulations were virtually non-existent in Brazil up to 1943), corruption, the failures of charity (in place of the necessary government investment), and racial prejudice.
