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Title	:	Quarantine
Author	:	Jim Crace
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	June 16th 1997 by Viking (first published June 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Religion. Literature. Literary Fiction

Quarantine

Jim Crace

Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 3383 Users | 304 Reviews

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The story of Jesus's forty days in the wilderness is surely among the most celebrated and widely diffused narratives in Western culture. Why, then, would Jim Crace choose to retell it in strictly naturalistic, non-miraculous terms? The obvious answer would be that the godless novelist is trying to debunk divinity -- to take the entire New Testament down a notch. And at first, this does seem to be the case. Crace's Jesus first got religion as an adolescent, and 'was transformed by god like other boys his age were changed by girls'. His peers view his spiritual fervour as a youthful eccentricity. Even now, as the thirty-something Jesus heads out to the Judean desert for his forty-day retreat, he's perceived by his fellow anchorites as a flighty and impractical Galilean. They even call him 'Gally' for short -- and what sort of deity answers to a nickname?

Yet Crace is hardly the jeering materialist we might expect. As Jesus takes to his cliff-top cave, the author renders his religious transports without a hint of irony, and with a linguistic elegance that can hardly be called disrespectful: 'The prayers were in command of him. He shouted out across the valley, happy with the noise he made. The common words lost hold of sound. The consonants collapsed. He called on god to join him in the cave with all the noises that his lips could make. He called with all the voices in his throat.' And while most of the temptations of Christ are visited upon him by humans -- by the motley crew of his cave-dwelling neighbours -- he resists them with what we can only call superhuman will. Quarantine does, of course, operate on a fairly realistic plane. Jesus dies of starvation long before his forty-day fast is complete, and his fellow retreatants, who take centre stage throughout much of the novel, are much too confused and brutal ever to figure in any Sunday school pageant. Still, Crace leaves at least the possibility of resurrection intact at the end, which should ensure that his brilliant book will rattle both believers and non-believers alike.

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Original Title:	Quarantine
ISBN:	0670856975 (ISBN13: 9780670856978)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1997), Whitbread Award for Novel (1997), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (1999)

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What has one to do in the desert? Why do pilgrims, sinners, hermits and saints go there? Why had Jesus gone to the wilderness?There was nothing else for Jesus to do, except to simplify his life. Repentance, meditation, prayer. Those were the joys of solitude. They had sustained the prophets for a thousand years. And they would be his daily companions. He started rocking with each word of prayer, putting all his body into it, speaking it out loud, concentrating on the sound, so that no part of

In the inhospitable terrain of the Judean desert, an odd party assembles to fast. The quarantiners each have their reasons, be it to banish cancer or bareness from their womb. Along the way they encounter a young Galilean, who seems much more determined than them.This novel operates on many different levels. The prose is poetic to an extent that it propels the reader down the page. It humanises Jesus and Satan beautifully and even manages to sneak a commentary on the wicked excesses of

....or, "When Good Miracles Happen to Bad People".Really, I'm being reductive here of a very rich and beautifully written work, full of the most poetic and rhythmic language. And while one of the main characters is a Galilean named Jesus, he is just one of several individuals in the book who are in crisis, and, to my mind, not nearly the most interesting or important.Crace's meditative and provocative novel is the story of five pilgrims who come to the desert back in ancient times in order to

Now this is how you write a gripping book.Quarantine is what you might call a novel of ideas. It seeks to give an account of Jesus' forty-day sojourn in the desert and to explain how Christianity (or, if you will, the cult of Christ) came into being. While it's not overly blasphemous, it does present its theories in a way to which people who take the New Testament very literally might object. See, for one thing, Crace's Jesus is not the Son of God, but rather a clumsy and all too human carpenter

Reading Jim Grace I feel like hes very aware of writing in a kind of oral tradition. Hes very attentive to the music and the rhythm of the way that sentences sound like. Even though he uses simple vocabulary the percussion of each sentence is very complicated and Jim Grace attends to it very closely. Theres always a drum beat running through his sentences. They are so musically and rhythmically based that you almost want to tap your feet to them. I was really charmed by this story. It started

Be well.As much as I was hoping for a zombie apocalypse novel, this was a retelling of what was reputed to be Christ's 40 day fast in the desert. So.. not what I was expecting, to say the least ^_^This book is well-written & Crace is wonderful with his attention to detail. I have only read his "The Devil's Larder" prior to this, which was a delicious, erotic collection of short stories which I highly, highly recommend! This? Well, it all depends. I am not a religious person, so I honestly

A though-provoking book but not enjoyable. (I don't care how many medals it won.) This book had beautiful images and real-seeming characters, but the story itself wasn't that compelling. The writing was quite good (mechanically), but again - not a very gripping story. One man's opinion, anyway.