TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordimer,Nadine
TI  - The pickup
SN  - 9780142001424
PY  - 2002///
CY  - England
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Noncitizens
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Women
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Children of the rich
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - 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.
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