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File Size: 324 KB

Print Length: 254 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0312199511

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (April 1, 2010)

Publication Date: April 1, 2010

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B000OI1AGQ

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Some wonderful ironies. Jesus, on arriving in the wilderness, brings back to life an absolute turd of a man, Musa, who brutalises his pregnant wife and bludgeons his donkey to death, then rips off the others in the group. In the end, Musa swaps his merchant life, seeing the opportunity for an easier life telling tales of salvation to gullible people. Ha. And the barren wife Marta, raped by Musa, will go home and tell how the holy man Jesus gave her a baby just by touching her. Though Jesus is thought to have died and was buried, he is placed in a grave where there is water. At the end, has he been resurrected or revived - who knows? Musa will make financial mileage from it. Here and there, I had some real gut chuckles. This novel is fine literature that raises delicious questions in regard to religious dogma. Some parts were overly wordy.

According to the Christian Bible, when Jesus went into the wilderness to fast and pray, he ate no food and drank no water for forty days. According to the medical excerpt that introduces this novel, no human can survive a total fast for more than thirty days or stay conscious under those conditions for more than twenty five. So how did Jesus, who was, after all, a man, and depicted as no more than human in this novel, make it through forty days of a total fast? In this provocative, wonderfully imagined story of Jesus' season in the wilderness, Crace provides a plausible answer to that question.The story opens with an anxious, footsore Jesus searching for a desert cave to shelter him during his quarantine, which was a standard religious retreat of that time. He comes upon a tent and in it finds a man close to death. Jesus drinks from the man's water bag, mumbles a conventional benediction of the day, and leaves. The man, Musa, recovers from his fever, a miracle he attributes to the strange Galilean he glimpsed during his delirium. When Jesus popped in, Musa's wife, Miri, had been out digging his grave, and dreaming happily of her freedom from the loutish, abusive Musa. She's considerably less ecstatic about this alleged miracle than Musa is.Musa returns to form, which is the form of a brutish, sharp-witted caravan trader. He bullies the other pilgrims into believing he owns the caves and water in the area, and makes them pay him rent during their quarantine. He also forces them to help him search out the "Gally" who cured him. They find Jesus in one of the most inaccessible caves on the cliff face, and Musa tries to tempt him out by lowering food and water down to the mouth of his cave. But Musa is only a minor form of the devil Jesus wrestles with; his fiercest struggles are brought on by his need to achieve spiritual perfection.We're privy to the inmost desires of Jesus and his fellow spiritual seekers, and of the Musas who are always there to exploit them. Even though he rejects the easy default to divine intervention, Crace doesn't disallow miracles to those who are prepared to believe in them. And he is sympathetic to both the sufferings and the aspirations of the religious pilgrims, while not ignoring the self-serving egotism that drove Jesus and the others into the desert in the first place.Crace does a brilliant job bringing that harsh, parched desert to life. He names the contents of Musa's tent, the parts of Miri's loom, the bugs that crawl into the water hole, the desert plants that store moisture. The only defense Jesus and the other pilgrims have against this begrudging land and their rapacious landlord is faith in their god. Like the South African novelist JM Coetzee, Crace burrows into the question of what's left of a human once the physical props and mental constructs get stripped away. In the process, he draws us deep into the intimate relationship between enlightenment and the surrender of the corporeal self.Crace's Jesus is fearful, ignorant, credulous, and prideful. He's tormented by wind and cold and dust. Desperate for signs that he matters to his god, his mind strains toward heaven as his life leaches into the stony, barren ground. He's just a man, and, because of that, far more moving and heroic than that other fictional Jesus, the one who appears in the Bible.

I think it is helpful to first review the small story of the forty days of Jesus in the desert before embarking on a comment about Crace's book:+++Matthew 4The Temptation of Jesus1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."4Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"5Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written: "'He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"7Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"8Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9"All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."10Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"11Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.+++Jim Crace has taken a moment of Jesus' life - 40 days or so - and submitted it to the mind of a story teller.So as not to take offensive at this interpretation, it is pivotal to understand what Karen Armstrong so adeptly discusses in her book, The Bible: A Biography, that "an exclusively literal intepretation of the Bible is a recent development. Until the nineteenth century, very few people imagined that the first chapter of Genesis was a factual account of the origins of life. For centuries, Jews and Christians relished the highly allegorical and inventive exegesis, insisting that a wholly literal reading of the Bible was neither possible nor desirable."First and foremost, I was very impressed with Crace's respect for the person of Jesus. Artists of today's age have been much less pious in their interpretations of the Savior.Secondly, an engaging story of the lives of the tempters and tempted allows for an amazing depth of perspective in the challenges and rewards of the Fast. The humanity of the matter sings clearly, the divineness receives its appropriate awe.And finally, through the struggle a message of hope results. No person emerges unchanged from the events of the Quarantine.

The writing in Quarantine: A Novel is quietly rhythmic and flows beautifully from the novel's start to (almost) finish. It is a joy to sink into the beauty of it. However, as much as I hesitate to grumble about a book that has been so lauded, it's one of those books I wanted to throw as I finished it. To me, this rewriting of the Jesus story had limitless potential It had the feel of a fable, and it could have gone anywhere, with a moral that could have been anything. It showed signs of being challenging, presenting something fresh and surprising. But it never happened. The ideas never fully developed. And that last sentence....!!!!! It seemed to me to be a copout. I repeat. I wanted to throw the book.

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