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About the Author

Nadine Gordimer is the author of 12 previous novels as well as numerous collections of stories and essays, all published by FSG; her most recent work includes None to Accompany Me (1994) and The House Gun (1998), both novels, and Living in Hope and History (2000), a collection of her reminiscences. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist, in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Praise for The Pickup…

“Astonishing...It is hard to conceive of a more sympathetic, more intimate introduction to the lives of ordinary Muslims than we are given here.”---J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books “This is surely what art has at its highest octane done: attempts to push its way around the ineffable, to get inside others’ heads, to cross the many boundaries that so terminally and tragically divide us.”---The Washington Post Book World “Gordimer plays the lovers off of one another expertly….She explores the problems of dispossession with characteristic subtlety.”---The New Yorker “Ms. Gordimer’s ability to delineate the psychological consequences of exile, class, disaffection, and racial prejudice enables her to lend Julie and [Ibrahim’s] relationship an unusual poignancy and depth.”---Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times  “Brilliant…Gordimer’s stark sentences and emotional depth make most modern fiction seem trivial.”---The Times (London)