Quarantine Jim Crace by Jim Crace 9780374706210, 0374706212 instant download after payment.

Jim Crace’s imaginative retelling of a biblical story centres on four travellers trapped in the wilderness, and their terrifying battle for survival.  "A flawlessly presented tale that opens a window on human aspiration and folly, its revelations full of grit and glory."   -  Kirkus Reviews

Two thousand years ago, four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks, they encounter the evil merchant Musa - madman, sadist, rapist, even a Satan - who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is another, a faint figure in the distance, fasting for 40 days. A Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles…

"Quarantine is a book about science and divinity, about hunger and heat and thirst and faith. But more than all of that, it's about perspective, about the uniquely human capacity to crave meaning, about our fundamental need to believe. I'm not a very religious person, and I'd wager the author isn't either, but this novel, unlike most I read, always leaves me in a state of rapture, as if I'd received a revelation of my own."  -  Bret Anthony Johnston, NPR

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of a dozen books, including Continent, winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His book Quarantine was the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year; Being Dead won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. Harvest was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize and won both the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.