01237nam a2200193Ia 4500 20261026163930.0 260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 0142001422 23 823.914 GOR Gordimer,Nadine The Pickup / Nadine Gordimer London : Penguin Books ,2001 270p. When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid. Their attraction to one another is fueled by different motives. Julie is in rebellion against her wealthy background and her father; Abdu, an illegal immigrant, is desperate to avoid deportation to his impoverished country. In the course of their relationship, there are unpredictable consequences, and overwhelming emotions will overturn each one's notion of the other. Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the desert, 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 English fiction Contemporary Literature Literary Fiction RBK 69015 69015 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-08 0 823.914 GOR G8342 2026-06-08 15:45:16 2026-06-08 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection