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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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 NERFINISHED
Julie Summers is a white South African woman from a wealthy background NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin South Africa
explores bureaucratic obstacles to migration
cultural displacement
gender and power dynamics in relationships
tensions between privilege and marginalization
firstPublicationFormat print
genre literary fiction
social novel
hasISBN 9780747559991
hasNobelLaureateAuthor true
language English
literaryPeriod post-apartheid South African literature
mainCharacter Abdu NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
unnamed North African desert country
theme class
cross-cultural relationships
exile
identity
immigration
postcolonialism
race

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