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Quarantine

A Novel

By Jim Crace

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| Paperback | 9780312199517

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Book Description

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 deserContinue

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Shifting sands

Jim Crace's novel ends with what might be an optical illusion. The quarantiners have left the desert where they have kept their fast and buried Jesus, "the healer", who has died after 30 days without food or water. They are followed out of the wilder ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Finding Jesus

Despite what many of my readers and critics might believe, I am a cheerful optimist, both on the page and off it. But unwarranted optimism - of the kind that promises non-sinners an eternity of heaven, for example, or suggests, Hollywood-style, that ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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This was a powerful and thought provoking book about compassion and suffering. While it is set during Jesus' fasting in the desert, the narrative focuses more on the other people in the same area and their struggles and dreams. I especially liked the interactions between the women Miri and Marta.

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