Symposium (novel)

Symposium

First edition
Author Muriel Spark
Cover artist Susan Sluglett
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Constable (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
Publication date
1990
Media type Print & Audio
Pages 192
ISBN 0-09-469660-8

Symposium is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, published in 1990. It was regarded by John Mortimer writing in The Sunday Times as one of the best novels of that year.[1]

Plot introduction

It is the story of a dinner party and the events leading up to it involving the lives of the five couples attending:

The story includes many flashbacks into the lives of the guests including a convent of Marxist nuns, a burglary ring preying on the guests, a mad Scottish uncle and several unexplained deaths. The dinner party itself ends with the murder of the mother of one of the guests...

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