Quarantine (Jim Crace novel)
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| Author(s) | Jim Crace |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam |
| Publication date | 1997 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 242 pp |
| ISBN | 0-670-85697-5 |
| OCLC Number | 37420821 |
Quarantine is a novel by Jim Crace. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction the same year.
[edit] Plot summary
Set in the Judean desert, 2000 years ago. It features 7 main characters:
- Musa: a greedy trader, believed by the Galilean to be a manifestation of Satan
- Miri: Musa's pregnant wife
- Marta: fasting between dawn and dusk in an attempt to turn her barren womb fertile
- Shim: a young traveller
- Aphas: fasting between dawn and dusk in an attempt to remove the cancer from his abdomen
- Badu: believed to be deaf and mute; good at catching animals
- The Galilean/Gally/Jesus: aiming to fast for 40 days and nights with divine help; plagued by religious/spiritual hallucinations/visions. Dies in the novel only to be seen during the end, risen.
[edit] Editions
- Quarantine, Penguin Books, (1998) ISBN 0-14-023974-X
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