Brazil

Tristao Raposo, a 19 year-old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an 18 year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of the Copacabana, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes then from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1994; London: Peng.