Gordimer's book was chosen from a list of nearly 100 candidates submitted for consideration by faculty, administrators, students, alumni and others. It was recently selected as a featured book for discussion by the Great Books Foundation, was awarded the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was included on a shortlist for the 2001 Man Booker Prize. "The Pickup" has been widely recognized as an accomplished work of contemporary fiction. The novel challenges our ideas about who is a cultural "insider" or "outsider," and invites readers to reflect on the role of religion, importance of family and conflicts between responsibility and the satisfaction of human desire. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, the novel centers on the relationship between a wealthy South African woman and an illegal Muslim immigrant she meets when her car breaks down.
Cornell's incoming undergraduate class in fall 2007 will explore themes of identity, personal responsibility, human freedom and cultural and class differences in Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer's 2001 novel "The Pickup." The 2007 selection for the annual New Student Reading Project was announced by Michele Moody-Adams, Cornell vice provost for undergraduate education.
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