Quarantine (Jim Crace novel) 3001381 220666212 2008-06-20T23:45:02Z Eubot 231599 Hatnote formatting, see [[User:Eubot/Hatnote formatting]] {{otheruses|Quarantine (disambiguation)}} {{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Quarantine | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:Quarantine.jpg|200px]] | image_caption = First edition cover | author = [[Jim Crace]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = [[United Kingdom]] | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = [[Historical novel]] | publisher = [[Penguin Putnam]] | release_date = 1997 | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) | pages = 242 pp | isbn = ISBN 0-670-85697-5 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''Quarantine''' is a novel by [[Jim Crace]]. It was the winner of the 1997 [[Whitbread Book Awards|Whitbread Novel Award]], and was shortlisted for the [[Man Booker Prize|Booker Prize for Fiction]] the same year. ==Plot summary== Set in the Judean desert, 2000 years ago. It features 7 main characters: * Musa: a greedy trader, believed by the Galilean to be a manifestation of Satan * Miri: Musa's pregnant wife * Marta: fasting between dawn and dusk in an attempt to turn her barren womb fertile * Shim: a young traveller * Aphas: fasting between dawn and dusk in an attempt to remove the cancer from his abdomen * Badu: believed to be deaf and mute; good at catching animals * The Galilean/Gally/[[Jesus]]: aiming to fast for 40 days and nights with divine help; plagued by religious/spiritual hallucinations/visions. Dies in the novel only to be seen during the end, risen. ==Editions== * ''Quarantine'', [[Penguin Books]], (1998) ISBN 0-14-023974-X [[Category:1997 novels]] [[Category:English novels]] [[Category:Historical novels]] [[Category:Whitbread Award Winners]] {{1990s-novel-stub}} {{hist-novel-stub}}