The Pickup
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The Pickup is a novel by South African writer and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer that explores themes of immigration, class, and cross-cultural relationships.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Pickup canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| alternateName | Ibrahim ibn Musa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Nadine Gordimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorAward | Nadine Gordimer Nobel Prize in Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Africa Region) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Abdu is an illegal immigrant mechanic
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Julie Summers is a white South African woman from a wealthy background NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | South Africa ⓘ |
| explores |
bureaucratic obstacles to migration
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cultural displacement ⓘ gender and power dynamics in relationships ⓘ tensions between privilege and marginalization ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | print ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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social novel ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780747559991 ⓘ |
| hasNobelLaureateAuthor | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | post-apartheid South African literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Abdu
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Julie Summers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Man Booker Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Julie Summers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
South Africa
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unnamed North African desert country ⓘ |
| theme |
class
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cross-cultural relationships ⓘ exile ⓘ identity ⓘ immigration ⓘ postcolonialism ⓘ race ⓘ |
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