Quarantine
By: Jim Crace.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Temptation -- Fiction; Bible. N.T. -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction
Description: A re-imagining of the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness being tempted by the devil.

Judea, about two thousand years ago: There were five of them - not in a group, but strung out along the road where earlier that morning the caravan of uncles had passed by. Three men, a woman, and, too far behind for anyone to guess its gender, a fifth. And this fifth was barefoot, and without a staff. No water-skin, or bag of clothes. No food.

A slow, painstaking figure, made thin and watery by the rising, mirage heat, as if someone had thrown a stone into the pool of air through which it walked and ripples had diluted it.