The Pickup
Julie Summers, the daughter of a wealthy Johannesburg family who has turned her back on its comforts, falls in love with a car mechanic who is in the country illegally. When he is deported she follows him to his home village in an unnamed desert country, where she must live by a different set of rules. Gordimer's first novel after her Nobel Prize turns her long attention to apartheid-era South Africa towards migration and the pull of a place one has chosen.
Open The Pickup in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.
Attributes
Plot type
Form
Symbol / motif
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 61% · 12 shared
- 61% · 11 shared
- 58% · 12 shared
- 58% · 11 shared
- 55% · 12 shared
- 55% · 11 shared