
Quarantine
A Novel
Edición de la obra Quarantine
| Autor | Jim Crace |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Fecha de publicación | March 14, 1998 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 242 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780374239626 |
| ISBN-10 | 0374239622 |
| Número de Cutter | C883q |
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.