The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer

Descriere The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer

Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the desert, this is a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire from a Nobel Prize-winning writer. \n \nA New York Times Notable Book \nWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa \n \nRanks as one of Gordimer's best novels...It transcends politics and aims at a meaning higher than human striving.---The Philadelphia Inquirer \n \nWhen 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).\n

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Picador Usa

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9781250024046

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