Cover of The Mandelbaum Gate

The Mandelbaum Gate

To rendezvous with her archeologist fiance in Jordan, Barbara Vaughn must first pass through the Mandelbaum Gate—which divides strife-torn Jerusalem. A half-jewish convert to Catholicism, an Englishwoman of strong and stubborn convictions, Barbara will not be dissuaded from her ill-timed pilgrimage despite a very real threat of bodily harm and the fearful admonishments of staid British diplomat Freddy Hamilton.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Mandelbaum Gate? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Mandelbaum Gate. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Summer House: A Trilogy Shares fiction, virago, literary fiction
  2. The Sin Eater Shares fiction, virago, British
  3. The D. Case or The Truth About The Mystery Of Edwin Drood Shares fiction, literature, literary fiction
  4. Muriel Spark: The Biography

“People who read The Mandelbaum Gate tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Facial Justice
  2. Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales
  3. The Late Bourgeois World
  4. Falstaff

“If you want more of the same (literary fiction), start with these.”

  1. Fima
  2. A Woman in Jerusalem
  3. Second Person Singular
  4. The Book of Intimate Grammar

“If it was the virago that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Meeting the English
  2. The Wedding Group
  3. In a Summer Season
  4. No Signposts in the Sea

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Sworn to Conflict
  2. Her Kind Of Trouble
  3. Doctor Who: Ghosts of India
  4. Hunting Angel