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The
2003 Award
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The Pickup by
Nadine Gordimer
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Editions: Bloomsbury 0747554277 : Farrar, Straus & Giroux 0374232105 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Who
picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a privileged background she despises? When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street at a garage, a young Arab emerges from beneath the chassis of a vehicle to aid her. The consequences are unpredictable and intense, as each person's notions of the other are overturned. The Pickup is set in the social mix of the new South Africa and an Arab village in the desert. It is the story of the rites of passage that are emigration/immigration, anywhere in the world, where love can survive only if stripped of all certainties outside itself. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Lying Days (her first novel), The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Burger's Daughter, July's People, My Son's Story, None to Accompany Me and, most recently, The House Gun. Her collections of short stories include Something Out There and Jump. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in South Africa. |
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