A controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travelers and their encounter with Jesus.

Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist

A New York Times Notable Book

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

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.

"Stunning... Crace is a writer of hallucinatory skill." -- John Updike, The New Yorker

"Engaging... magical... There is wit and meat in every detail... Crace's portrait of Jesus is audacious and disconcerting." -- Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

"A spiritual mystery of the best kind... the creation of an ambitious imagination... a literary miracle." -- USA Today

"The ways in which Crace has the six desert dwellers interrelate with each other and with Jesus are spellbinding; the book is a superbly crafted combination of historical and inspirational fiction that is genuinely unique." -- Publishers Weekly

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