| Christina, a young Portuguese woman rearedin the civility and elegance of seventeenth-century Europe, travels to newborn anduntamed Brazil, betrothed to a cousin shehas never met. From the time Christina setsfoot on that strange New World soil, an auraof doom envelopes her. The awesomenessof the natural beauty, the mysterious fur-tiveness of the native Indians, the cruelty ofslavery, and the animal-like avarice of herfellow whites, the conquerors and colonists,all unite to overwhelm her sense of self-respect and well being. |
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