Quarantine (1997 Crace), novel

Quarantine (1997) is a novel by Jim Crace.

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.

Editions

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

Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Also translated into Croatian, Serbian and Modern Greek.

External links

• Wikipedia