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Quarantine (Jim Crace novel)
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Quarantine is a novel by Jim Crace
. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction
the same year.
Jim Crace
James "Jim" Crace is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife...
. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction
Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...
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/JesusJesusJesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
: 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.