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The Mandelbaum Gate
The Mandelbaum Gate
Author: Muriel Spark
On a pilgramage to the Holy Places of Jordan, Barbara Vaughan (half Jewish, Catholic convert, engaged to a Dead Sea Scroll archaeologist) meets Freddy Hamilton (diplomat, celibate, poet) in Jerusalem. Ignoring his warning that she will be arrested because of her Jewish blood, Barbara embarks on a pilgrimage that becomes a flight...a rout...a des...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140027457
ISBN-10: 0140027459
Publication Date: 1982
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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not my favorite Muriel Spark book, but interesting and topical.
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An insistent Englishwoman, a half-Jewish covert to Catholicism, crosses from Israeli-held to Jordanian-held Jerusalem. The backdrop is the Eichmann trial of 1961. So begins a series of bizarre, sometimes comic events.


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