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Pickup - Paperback

Pickup - Paperback

by Nadine Gordimer
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Book Overview

A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa

"Ranks as one of Gordimer's best novels...It transcends politics and aims at a meaning higher than human striving."---The Philadelphia Inquirer

When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a street in Cape Town, a young Arab mechanic comes to her aid. Their attraction to each other is immediate. Julia, the daughter of a powerful businessman, is trying to escape a privileged background she despises. Abdu, an educated but poor illegal immigrant, is desperate to evade deportation. The consequences of this chance meeting are unpredictable and intense, as each person's notions of the other are overturned. Set in the social mix of post-apartheid South Africa and an unnamed Arab country, Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup "is a masterpiece of creative empathy...a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire, and it also opens the Arab world to unusually nuanced perception" (Edward W. Said).
ISBN9781250024046
Author Nadine Gordimer
PublisherPicador USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) Born in Springs, South Africa, she was the author of fourteen novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story and None to Accompany Me. Her short fictio was published in eleven collections including Jump, and Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972. Her nonfiction includes The Essential Gesture; On the Mines; The Black Interpreters. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".

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