Quarantine (1997 Crace), novel

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Quarantine (1997) is a novel by Jim Crace.

Abstract

An international bestseller.

Winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award tells the story of four travelers who enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. They encounter the evil merchant, Musa, who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, a faint figure in the distance, fasting for 40 days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles.

"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 desert. In Crace's account, Jesus travels to a cluster of arid caves where he crosses paths with a small group of exiles who are on a pilgrimage to find redemption. One wealthy and manipulative quarantiner recognizes characteristics in Christ that he believes are divine. Evoking the strangeness and beauty of the desert landscape, Crace provocatively interprets one of our most important stories"--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in London [England]: Hall; and New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.

Translations

• Quarantaine = Quarantine (1998 @1997 Crace / Leynaud), novel (French ed.)

• Die Versuchung in der Wüste = Quarantine (1998 @1997 Crace / Ahlers), novel (German ed.)

• Kluizenaars = Quarantine (1999 @1997 Crace / Willemse), novel (Dutch ed.)

• Quarentena = Quarantine (1999 @1997 Crace / Straus), novel (Portuguese ed.)

• Il diavolo nel deserto = Quarantine (1998 Crace / Noulian), novel (Italian ed.)

• ארבעים ימי תענית = Quarantine (2000 @1997 Crace / Evron), novel (Hebrew ed.)

• Los cuarenta días = Quarantine (2002 @1997 Crace / Vives), novel (Spanish ed.)

• 四十日 = Quarantine (2002 @1997 Crace / Watanabe), novel (Japanese ed.)

• 사십일 = Quarantine (2006 @1997 Crace / Kim), novel (Korean ed.)

Also translated into Croatian, Serbian and Modern Greek.

External links

• Wikipedia