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The Pickup

When an affluent Julie has broken down in a South African city she is drawn to Abdu, the mechanic who has comes to her aid. Their relationship develops into a passionate love, in a prejudiced society.

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  • "Pick up"
  • "Pickup"@tr
  • "Pickup"@he
  • "Pickup"
  • "Pickup"@it

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  • "When an affluent Julie has broken down in a South African city she is drawn to Abdu, the mechanic who has comes to her aid. Their relationship develops into a passionate love, in a prejudiced society."@en
  • "A relationship forms between an Arab mechanic desperate to avoid deportation and a rich young woman desperate to escape her family's control."
  • "The daughter of a powerful businessman, trying to escape her privileged background she despises, meets a young Arab who is an illegal immigrant, desperate to evade deportation."
  • "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 priveleged 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 develop as a story of unpredictably relentless emotions that overturn each one's notion of the other, and of the solutions life demands for different circumstances. She insists on leaving the country with him. The love affair becomes a marriage-that state she regards as a social convention appropriate to her father's set and her mother remarried in California, but decreed by her 'grease monkey' in order to present her respectably to his family. In the Arab village, while he is dedicated to escaping, again, to what he believes is a fulfilling life in the West, she is drawn by a counter-magnet of new affinities in his close family and the omnipresence of the desert. A novel of great power and concision, psychological surprises and unexpected developments, The Pickup is a story of the rites of passage that are emigration/immigration, where love can survive only if stripped of all certainties outside itself. --Publisher."@en
  • "Read by Lisette Lecat."
  • "Een blanke Zuid-Afrikaanse wordt verliefd op een illegale Arabische automonteur en trouwt met hem als hij het land uit wordt gezet."
  • "The Nobel Laureate's psychologically penetrating story of the love affair between a rich South African and the illegal alien she "picks up" on a whim 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 priveleged 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 develop as a story of unpredictably relentless emotions that overturn each one's notion of the other, and of the solutions life demands for different circumstances. She insists on leaving the country with him. The love affair becomes a marriage-that state she regards as a social convention appropriate to her father's set and her mother remarried in California, but decreed by her 'grease monkey' in order to present her respectably to his family. In the Arab village, while he is dedicated to escaping, again, to what he believes is a fulfilling life in the West, she is drawn by a counter-magnet of new affinities in his close family and the omnipresence of the desert. A novel of great power and concision, psychological surprises and unexpected developments, The Pickup is a story of the rites of passage that are emigrationmmigration, where love can survive only if stripped of all certainties outside itself."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Text"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Jihoafrické romány (anglicky)"
  • "Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "South African fiction (English)"

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  • "The Pick up"
  • "Znaleziony"@pl
  • "המציאה"
  • "ha-Metsiʼah"
  • "The pickup : [novel]"
  • "Un amant de fortune roman"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "The Pickup"@en
  • "The Pickup"
  • "Poutníci"
  • "El Encuentro"
  • "The pickup : [a novel]"
  • "Ein Mann von der Straße Literatur, Lesung"
  • "Rite de passage"
  • "El encuentro"@es
  • "El encuentro"
  • "Pobran"@sl
  • "偶遇者"
  • "偶遇者 = The pickup"
  • "L'aggancio"
  • "L'aggancio"@it
  • "Ou yu zhe = The pickup"
  • "Un amant de fortune"
  • "Seducció"@ca
  • "Seducció"
  • "The pickup"
  • "The pickup"@en
  • "Ein Mann von der Straße : Roman"
  • "[Seducció]"
  • "Ein Mann von der Strasse : Roman"
  • "Un amant de fortune : roman"
  • "Ou yu zhe"
  • "The pick up"@en
  • "Ayartma = The pickup"@tr

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