9780142001424

The Pickup

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780142001424

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Overview

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).


ISBN-13

9780142001424

ISBN-10

0142001422

Weight

0.53 Pounds

Dimensions

5.22 x 0.51 x 7.78 In

List Price

$15.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

288 pages

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published On

2002-09-24



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