Quarantine
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Hell is other people... Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa - madman, sadist, rapist, even a Satan - who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, a faint figure in the distance, fasting for 40 days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles... Here, trapped in the wilderness, their terrifying battle for survival begins.
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I love the writing. An intriguing, if slightly unsatisfying tale.
A beautiful and in-depth imagining of a handful of random Middle Easterners who have each come to the desert for their own reasons and with their own burdens—one of whom just happening to be Jesus, who is cast as an almost psychotic outsider to both the group and the book. Dazzling. For this, John Updike called Crace “a writer of hallucinatory skill.”
