《偶遇者》是戈迪默后种族隔离时期的作品，通过描写全球化时代人类对于理想家园的追寻，作者表达了建立多元文化和谐共存的新南非家园的希望。基于世界主义精神，主人公朱莉通过协商和对话化解文化冲突与差异，最终在异乡找到家的归属，消解了中心—边缘的二元对立。对《偶遇者》中家园的世界主义表述的研究，不仅能够丰富我国的非洲文学研究，也对促进中非文化互鉴，构建“人类命运共同体”具有借鉴价值。

The Pickup is a novel written in post-apartheid period. Nadine Gordimer has depicted in The Pickup mankind’ s pursuit of an ideal homeland in the age of globalization, which reflects her hope for building a harmonious homeland of multicultural coexistence in new South Africa. Guided by the spirit of cosmopolitanism, the heroine Julie always conducts negotiations and communications when confronted with cultural differences and conflicts, which at last help her find home and settle down in a foreign land. Julie’s practices of cosmopolitanism have dissolved the center-periphery binary opposition. The study on cosmopolitan representation of homeland in
The Pickup will not only enrich African literature studies in China, but also contribute to the mutual cultural learning between China and Africa, as well as provide some references to the building of "a community with shared future for mankind".