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Transcript: John Updike Discusses Latest Novel Centered in Brazil
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- April 2, 1994
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SCOTT SIMON, Host: Brazil is a vast, cruel, grand and beguiling country.
Its extremes may seem familiar to North Americans, but it's another
world - really. Of people languishing on lazy beaches, or scrambling
with their hands to wrench gold out of rocks. A land in which people
struggle in desperate beggary or cling proudly to wealth. And a nation
with perhaps the best music in the world.
John Updike's new novel is the love story of Trishtow [sp], a
dark-skinned child of Rio de Janeiro's [sp] slums. The favel [sp]
is in Isabel [sp], the blonde daughter of the Copa Cobana high rises,
where boys like Trishtow are ridiculed out of bigotry, and feared
for some ...