The Pickup

The Nobel Laureate’s penetrating story of a love affair that begins as a casual encounter between a rich South African and an illegal alien.

Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the businessman’s daughter trying to escape a privileged background she despises? When Julie Summers’s car breaks down in a sleazy street, at a garage a young Arab emerges from beneath the chassis of a …