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Jim Crace - Quarantine - 9781447275145 - 9781447275145
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Quarantine

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Description for Quarantine Paperback. Jim Crace's Booker-shortlisted masterpiece. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 232.

With an introduction by Stuart Evers

So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri without shame or hesitation, of letting drop her headscarf for a change so that nothing intervened between her and the sky.

Five travellers venture into the Judean wilderness in search of redemption. Instead, amidst the barren rocks, they are met by a dangerous man, Musa, and fall under his dark influence. As the unforgiving days and bitter nights erode their resolve, it ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Picador Classic
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447275145
SKU
9781447275145
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jim Crace
Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award) and, most recently, Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man ... Read more

Reviews for Quarantine
‘Dazzling, gritty brilliance. This is a novel of scorching distinction’ Sunday Times ‘Stunning. A writer of hallucinatory skill’ John Updike ‘One of the finest novels I’ve read in years’ The Times ‘Absolutely compelling’ Observer ‘Completely captivating’ Literary Review

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