Description
In 1961, as Jerusalem and the surrounding region simmer with political tension, an English schoolteacher on a modern pilgrimage—Barbara Vaughan—crosses into Jordan to visit her fiancé, Harry Clegg. Warned that her mixed Jewish and Catholic identity may make her a target, she finds herself drawn into a shifting landscape of surveillance, espionage, and moral uncertainty, where even memory and intention can be weaponized. Muriel Spark’s sharp, darkly comic style turns Barbara’s personal crisis into a larger meditation on faith, belonging, and the cost of choosing one’s own life in a world determined to categorize you. With danger closing in and loyalties tested, Barbara must decide what her heritage means when the Holy Land becomes, once again, a place of schism—political, religious, and deeply personal.
Available Editions
paperback
Birlinn, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2018
400 pages
ISBN: 9781846974328
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Details
First Published
1965
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark.