Quarantine (Jim Crace novel)
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| image = [[Image:Quarantine.jpg|200px]]
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| author = [[Jim Crace]]
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| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| genre = [[Historical novel]]
| publisher = [[Penguin Putnam]]
| release_date = 1997
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages = 242 pp
| isbn = ISBN 0-670-85697-5
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'''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]]
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