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| Original Title: | The Pickup |
| ISBN: | 0142001422 (ISBN13: 9780142001424) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Julie Summers |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa (2002) |
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.56 | 3148 Users | 407 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Pickup |
| Author | : | Nadine Gordimer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | September 24th 2002 by Penguin Books (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Southern Africa. South Africa. Nobel Prize. Contemporary |
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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" (Edward W. Said).Rating Out Of Books The Pickup
Ratings: 3.56 From 3148 Users | 407 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books The Pickup
I actually liked this book and i would've given it 4 stars up until the ending. I want to know what happened to Julie and Ibrahim?!?! Really, Nadine, really?? 🤔ðŸ˜A slow narrative essay, with an omniscient narrator,the one typical to Nadine Gordimer.The tale is a love story in post-apartheid south Africa, where racism is officially over but where new social norms based on wealth and power are creating new boundaries. Nadine Gordimer hints subtly to these issues without making them central to her story line. The issue is in fact about the protagonist's "pickup" or "lover", then later "husband"; an illegal immigrant and a new form of racism. Quite
Immigration and the nature of privilege are two very hot topics these days (especially to the masochistic readers of certain newspapers). So it was back in 2001, when Nadine Gordimer published The Pickup. The story is actually rather simple, in essence: Julie, a South African woman of achingly liberal views and a wealthy background, pursues a relationship with Abdu, an illegal immigrant, which eventually leads to them returning together to his home village. Can love overcome social and cultural
How do you define home? Is it where you were born? What about family? Is it the people who raised you? These are some of the issues Nadine Gordimer explores in her novel, The Pickup.Meet Julie Summers. Born into an affluent white South African family, she is the poor little rich girl skirting through life, working at an unfulfilling job, spouting pretentious jargon with liberal friends. Ashamed of her wealthy father and her social butterfly of a step-mother, she rebels against everything they
Obviously, Nadine Gordimer is an author of the first rank, distinguished by multiple awards, a Nobel Prize for Literature among them. However, The Pickup can not be judged to be among her finest works. Even beyond that, there are many areas that seem deeply in need of editorial guidance to allow this book to stand as a truly convincing story of a woman named Julie, the aimless 30 year old daughter of a wealthy, well-connected, post-Apartheid South African lawyer, someone who befriends (picks up)
Beautifully written book about a cross-cultural relationship in contemporary Africa. Human mobility is a funny thing, and the way people experience it varies so greatly...from "expats" to "aliens" to "travelers" and "seekers" and everything in between. Great and very insightful book about relationships, migration, and social class.
Im completely at a loss as to why this book is getting such acclaim. Its not the worst book Ive read, but it is a far, far cry from anything I would call great. I felt less like this was an insight into a love story about a couple crossing socio-economic boundaries and more like I was reading a story about two people infatuated with the idea of one another but not so much that they are unwilling to use one another for their own agenda. I found the tone of the writing highly aggravating. Sorry,
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