num_pages: 330
description: Barbara, engaged to an archaeologist, has pursued the beauty and danger of a life of faith. On a visit to Jerusalem she has befriended the diplomat Freddy Hamilton. Ignoring his warning that she risks arrest because of her Jewish blood, she has set out on a pilgrimage beyond the Mandelbaum Gate.
language: English
title: The Mandelbaum Gate
titlecomplete: The Mandelbaum Gate
characters: Freddy Hamilton, Barbara Vaughn
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Scotland, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Israel, British Literature
ratings_count: 791
places: Jerusalem
awards: awardedAt: -157737600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Macmillan