by John Updike · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440221247
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«Brasil» is the novel by John Updike, published by Orbis in hardcover (283 pages, in Spanish).
Tristão, a poor young Black man from Copacabana, and Isabel, a rich white girl, share a passion her father tries to break. The couple flees through the Brazilian hinterland in an odyssey inspired by Tristan and Isolde, between misery and the marvelous.
Spanish-language edition published in 1997 in the Grandes pasiones de la literatura collection, translated by Iris Menéndez. The original title, Brazil, appeared in 1994.
For readers of romantic novels and literary fiction seeking a love story with social background and magical elements.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
