"813/.54 20" . "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.Trist\u00E3o Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring stolen from an American tourist."@en . "0-679-43071-7" . . . . "Brazil"@en . "PS3571.P4 B48 1994" . "272"^^ . . . "28587188" .