The Pickup

The PickupA 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

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).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 02/05/2013
ISBN: 9781250024046
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.57w x 0.73d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 68780 / Pickup
Reading Level: 7.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13