num_pages: 243
description: An imaginative and powerful retelling of Christ's fabled 40-day fast in the desert. In Crace's account, Jesus travels to a cluster of arid caves where he crosses paths with a small group of exiles who are on a pilgrimage to find redemption. One wealthy and manipulative quarantiner recognizes characteristics in Christ that he believes are divine. Evoking the strangeness and beauty of the desert landscape, Crace provocatively interprets one of our most important stories.
language: English
title: Quarantine
titlecomplete: Quarantine
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Modern, British Literature, Historical, Religion, Novels
ratings_count: 3878
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Penguin Books