Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker
finalist: a controversial novel of faith and mystery about a
group of desert travellers and their encounter with Jesus
Quarantine is Jim Crace's imaginative and powerful retelling
of Christ's fabled 40-day fast in the desert. In Crace's
account, Jesus travels to a cluster of arid caves where he
crosses paths with a small group of exiles who are on a
pilgrimage to find redemption. One wealthy and manipulative
quarantiner recognizes characteristics in Christ that he
believes are divine. Evoking the strangeness and beauty of
the desert landscape, Crace provocatively interprets one of
our most important stories.
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