num_pages: 242
description: Jim Crace's novel is the brilliantly imagined story of Christ's forty days in the wilderness, a tale of three men, two women, and a curious wanderer whose peculiar fate is transformed into legend. Dazzling, gritty, and utterly compelling, Quarantine is a work at once timeless and timely - a parable for the ages.
language: English
title: Quarantine
titlecomplete: Quarantine
genres: Historical, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Modern, Religion, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, British Literature
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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux