Around this time last year, I read my first Jim Crace novel, Being Dead, and I loved it. Quarantine is the book he wrote just before Being Dead, and it shares many of the same virtues. I'll quote my earlier review, substituting the title:
What I really like about Quarantine is how Crace manages to emphasize the physical (and aggressively non-spirtitual) details while also showing how human thoughts and feelings bring meaning to them. His prose is poetic and naturalistic at the same time.Quarantine takes place in the Judean desert and features Jesus as a character, so the emergence of spirituality through an emphasis on the physical is part of its theme. There's something unique and satisfying about the way Crace puts together a sentence or description.
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