Quarantine (Jim Crace novel)
- Quarantine (Jim Crace novel)
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name = Quarantine
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Jim Crace
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Historical novel
publisher = Penguin Putnam
release_date = 1997
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 242 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-670-85697-5
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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.
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.
Editions
* "Quarantine", Penguin Books, (1998) ISBN 0-14-023974-X
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