{"product_id":"brazil-a-novel-0449911632","title":"Brazil: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0449911632\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Updike, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 YorkerThey meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father.Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by their families, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west-unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them.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.\" -Detroit Free Press\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51934862016800,"sku":"NEW0449911632","price":18.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/brazil-a-novel-0449911632","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}