The Mandelbaum Gate

Spark, Muriel (Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici)

ISBN 10: 1846974321 / ISBN 13: 9781846974328

Published by Polygon, Edinburgh, 2018

About this Item

2018. xx, 376pp. Very light shelf wear to unclipped jacket. Book and unclipped dust jacket are otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. All contents are tight and clean. "1961. While on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, English teacher Barbara Vaughan becomes intent on joining her archaeologist fiancé Harry, who is working on the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ignoring warnings not to cross the Mandelbaum Gate - the boundary between Israel and Jordan and the division between an old land and a new land - she enlists the assistance of British diplomat Freddy Hamilton and Arab contacts. An exotic and extravagant tale of abduction, espionage and pilgrimage. This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mandelbaum Gate
• Publisher: Polygon, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846974321
• ISBN 13: 9781846974328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Thus
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Scottish Literature/Fiction
  • Literature
  • Jewish

About this title

Synopsis

When a young English woman, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, insists upon crossing over from Israel into Jordan to rendezvous with her fiancé, she sets off a series of bizarre situations.

About the Author

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006. Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice, in 1940. He has written over a dozen novels, starting in 1968 with The Inventory. He has also published several collections of short stories and a number of books of non-fiction. His plays have been widely performed on the stage and on radio and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.