A review by pidgevorg
Quarantine by Jim Crace

4.0

Really well written, and pretty much every good thing that being shortlisted for the Booker prize implies, but it really needed to be about 100 pages shorter. It was crazy good in the beginning, then started to get a little repetitive in the middle, and then picked up again at the end. Also, it was a little heavy-handed with the New Testament references. I felt like this story was too different—it was inspired by NT, but went so far beyond it that allusions to NT parables felt gratuitous, like the literary version of name-dropping.