The Pickup

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9781250024046
Publisher: Picador
Language: English
Page Count: 270
Publication Date: 2/5/2013
Size: 8.27" l x 5.43" w x 0.98"
Series: N/A

Category Subject
Fiction Political
Fiction Literary
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).

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