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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
1997

ISBN
  
0-670-85697-5

Author
  
Jim Crace

Publisher
  
Penguin Books

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
242 pp

Originally published
  
1997

Genre
  
Historical Fiction

OCLC
  
37420821

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Nominations
  
Booker Prize, International Dublin Literary Award

Similar
  
Being Dead, Signals of Distress, Harvest, The Gift of Stones, The devil's larder

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.

Contents

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.

    • Editions

  • Quarantine, Penguin Books, (1998) ISBN 0-14-023974-X

    • References

    Quarantine (Crace novel) Wikipedia
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