The two daughters of Afonso Ol mpio and Otac lia raised in rural Brazil in the 1960s and educated in teeming Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s form the counterpoint and central theme linking four generations: the pliant, troubled Clarice and the lovely, strong-willed Maria In s. As other voices join in--those of the men they have married and the ones they have loved; the artist manqu Tom s; villagers and childhood friends; Great-Aunt Berenice in Rio; Eduarda,...