Quarantine, (Paperback)

from TheTwoDs

Crace, as always, is a master of the English language and through his prose deposits the reader into the Judean desert of 2000 years ago. A group of travelers - an aging Jew, a barren woman, a proud Greek and an African native called a badu (Badu is a traditional Ghanian name for the 10th-born so...

from lkernagh

Crace has written a re-telling of Jesus and his forty days of fasting in the desert, the "quarantine" of the title. Crace has created a mesmerizing tale that brings to life the barren setting and presents a cautionary tale of human aspirations and folly. Crace sucked me in every time I picked up ...

from mikewomack

After the disappointment that was The Pesthouse, I was pleasantly surprised by Quarantine. Each character had defining qualities that made the novel move forward. I thought it was interesting that Jesus was featured in the story but not really the main character. See, normally the Son of God gets...

from auntmarge64

A story of Jesus's time in the wilderness, beautifully written but with a very unpleasant character at the center of it and with Jesus largely an unseen presence. The imagined landscape is quite affecting, though, and the bleakness of the life and the position of women in the society seems plausi...

from nmele

In contrast to "I Am God", which I completed before beginning to read "Quarantine", which features a Galilean carpenter named Jesus and four others who enter the wilderness in Palestine for forty days on fasting and prayer. There they encounter a married couple whose own story impacts each of the...