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Book Review of The Mandelbaum Gate

The Mandelbaum Gate
The Mandelbaum Gate
Author: Muriel Spark
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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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.