Quarantine

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 unex