The Pickup Nadine Gordimer by Nadine Gordimer 9780142001424, 0142001422 instant download after payment.

Nadine Gordimer’s interracial love story between a young Arab man and a white South African woman explores themes of race, class, identity and culture.

“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’ car breaks down in a sleazy street, a young Arab garage mechanic comes to her rescue. Out of this meeting develops a friendship that turns to love. But soon, despite attempts to make the most of Julie’s wealthy connections, Abdu is deported from South Africa. Julie insists on going too - but the couple must marry to make the relationship legitimate in the traditional village which is to be their home. Here, however, an unexpected gulf forms between them.  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).

Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get a Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s Story and The Pickup. Her final novel was No Time Like the Present, published in 2012. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black.