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Article: The Dispossessed : Nadine Gordimer's new novel explores the contradictory longings of ill-fated lovers caught between two worlds.(The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Robert Ross is retired from the Australian Studies Center at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published widely on postcolonial literature.
Book Info:THE PICKUP
Nadine Gordimer
Publisher:New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
271 pp., $24.00
Nadine Gordimer's new novel brings to mind her chilling short story "Some Are Born to Sweet Delight" from the 1991 collection, Jump. In it a young South African woman falls in love with a man from an unnamed Islamic country, marries him, and sets off to join his family. Just as she is about to board the plane, he gives her a toy for his sister's child--a toy containing a bomb ...