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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Real Page Turner
This novel is one of Spark's best. I first read it as a teenager and couldn't put it down. It takes place amidst the political turmoil of the Middle East in the early 1960s and the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem. It is filled with intrigue and with almost too many things happening as Barbara Vaughan, an English spinster of partly Jewish heritage, travels to the...
Published 22 months ago by Edward J. Doran
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8 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Readable but hard to follow and scarcely worth the effort
I picked this book up when I ran out of reading material over the holidays. It looked great from the book cover (but you know what they say . . .) I found it to be a tedious book, very long and somewhat dull. Worst of all, when the "weird part" takes over -- it is very hard to follow. Impossible to understand what actually befell the primary male character...
Published on January 22, 2002 by susanjb
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Real Page Turner,
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This review is from: The Mandelbaum Gate (Paperback)
This novel is one of Spark's best. I first read it as a teenager and couldn't put it down. It takes place amidst the political turmoil of the Middle East in the early 1960s and the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem. It is filled with intrigue and with almost too many things happening as Barbara Vaughan, an English spinster of partly Jewish heritage, travels to the Holy Land to be with her boyfriend, an archaeologist working in Jordan on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Crossing from Israel to Jordan she is mistaken for a spy and must go undercover as a muslim woman covered from head to toe. Check out the original review by Malcolm Bradbury in the New Yorker for more details.
8 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Readable but hard to follow and scarcely worth the effort,
This review is from: The Mandelbaum Gate (Paperback)
I picked this book up when I ran out of reading material over the holidays. It looked great from the book cover (but you know what they say . . .) I found it to be a tedious book, very long and somewhat dull. Worst of all, when the "weird part" takes over -- it is very hard to follow. Impossible to understand what actually befell the primary male character. I can't recommend it unless you get it for free and have lots of time on your hands.
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The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark (Paperback - May 1992)
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