Quarantine by Jim Crace
Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa, who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, afaint figure in the distance, fasting for forty days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles ...
Jim Crace is the author of CONTINENT, THE GIFT OF STONES, ARCADIA and SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. He has won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E.M. Forster Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the GAP International Prize for Literature. He lives in Moseley, Birmingham, with his wife and two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140239744 |
| ISBN 10 | 014023974X |
| Title | Quarantine |
| Author | Jim Crace |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1997, Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1997, Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1997 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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