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A review by rogerb
Quarantine by Jim Crace
4.0
Nigel presented on Jim Crace to the literature group and made him interesting enough to follow this one up.
I think "other worlds" are a theme of Crace's - this one has a study of a small group enduring their 40 day desert fast in the Middle East some 2000 years ago; peripheral among them is an odd Galilean called Jesus. [The etymology of the word "Quarantine" is much more recent]. It's really rather good at presenting a pretty dysfunctional group of people through the filter of those times and I enjoyed it. Somehow, though, I had to push at the prose to read it ... it wasn't an open door.
It's not blaspemous, btw. [How would I know?]
I'd read more of Crace.
I think "other worlds" are a theme of Crace's - this one has a study of a small group enduring their 40 day desert fast in the Middle East some 2000 years ago; peripheral among them is an odd Galilean called Jesus. [The etymology of the word "Quarantine" is much more recent]. It's really rather good at presenting a pretty dysfunctional group of people through the filter of those times and I enjoyed it. Somehow, though, I had to push at the prose to read it ... it wasn't an open door.
It's not blaspemous, btw. [How would I know?]
I'd read more of Crace.