Quarantine (1997 Crace), novel

Quarantine (1997) is a novel by Jim Crace.

Editions and translations

Published in England (London: Hall, 1997) and the United States (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997). Translated into Croatian, Japanese, Korean, Serbian tr., Hebrew, and German.

• Il diavolo nel deserto (1998 Crace), novel (Italian ed.)

Abstract

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.