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Quarantine

A Novel

Quarantine( )
Author: Crace, Jim
ISBN:978-0-312-19951-7
Publication Date:Mar 1999
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.00
Book Description:

Quarantine is an imaginative and powerful retelling of Christ's fabled forty-day fast in the desert. In Jim Crace's account, Jesus travels to a cluster of arid caves, where he crosses paths with a small group of exiles and changes their lives in unexpected ways. Evoking the strangeness and beauty of the desert landscape, Crace provocatively interprets one of our most important stories.

Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Christian / Historical
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.57 Inches
Book Weight:0.72 Pounds
Author Biography
Crace, Jim (Author)


British author Jim Crace has won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Harvest (Picador). The ¿100,000 (A$205,140) award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English, and is chosen by judges from a selection of titles nominated by libraries across the world.

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