Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Pickup

Pickup

Gordimer, Nadine

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1250024048
ISBN13: 9781250024046
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Feb 5 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.21
Language: English

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).

Also in

Literary Fiction

View All