Quarantine

Quarantine

by JimCrace (Author)

Synopsis

'Dazzling, gritty brilliance. This is a novel of scorching distinction' Sunday Times Under an endless and unforgiving sky, four travellers enter the Judean desert in search of redemption. Instead, amidst the barren rocks, they are met by a dangerous man, Musa, and fall under his dark influence. But there is a fervent, solitary figure also sharing their landscape, denying the temptations of his neighbours, and, ultimately, the needs of his own body. So begin forty days and nights in one of the most inhospitable terrains on earth. 'One of the finest novels I've read in years' The Times 'Completely captivating' Literary Review 'Absolutely compelling' Observer 'Stunning. A writer of hallucinatory skill' John Updike

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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Published: 02 Apr 2010

ISBN 10: 0330516809
ISBN 13: 9780330516808

Media Reviews
'Stunning. A writer of hallucinatory skill' John Updike 'Completely captivating' Literary Review 'Absolutely compelling' Observer 'Dazzling, gritty brilliance. This is a novel of scorching distinction' Sunday Times 'One of the finest novels I've read in years' The Times
Author Bio
Jim Crace has enjoyed great success in both Britain and United States and his work is widely translated. He is the prize-winning author of nine previous books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.