Description
In a world suddenly cut off from the ordinary flow of life, a community is sealed behind quarantine lines, forced to confront what it means to be safe, responsible, and human when fear becomes policy. As days stretch into an uneasy routine, relationships strain and loyalties are tested, revealing how quickly survival can reshape morality and memory. With Jim Crace’s spare, lyrical storytelling, the novel explores the psychological and social costs of isolation—how rumor, ritual, and power take hold when the future feels suspended. Part moral inquiry and part haunting portrait of collective endurance, it asks what we owe one another when the rules of life are rewritten overnight.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1997
242 pages
ISBN: 9780312199517
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Quarantine by Jim Crace.