Quarantine
by Jim Crace
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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.
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Bible, Fiction, History of Biblical events, Temptation, History of New Testament events, Pilgrimages, Deserts, Religious aspects, New Testament, Apocryphal books, Wilderness (Theology), History, 18.05 English literature, Temptation of Jesus Christ, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Jesus christ, fiction, Fiction, christian, historical, Wilderness survival, Fasting, Romans, nouvelles, TentationPeople
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Quarantine: Picador USA Reading Group Guides (Reading Group Guides)
April 2001, Picador USA
Paperback
in English
0312207026 9780312207021
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First published: U.K. : Viking Penguin, 1997.
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