The Blue Gate of Babylon is the third comic novel by British writer Paul Pickering.

It was published by Chatto & Windus and Penguin Books in the United Kingdom and Random House in the United States, was long-listed for the Booker Prize, became a New York Times notable book of the year[1] and saw Pickering included in the Top Ten Young British Novelists.

[2] The novel received favourable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.

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