Quarantine
British novelist, born 1946. Won the Costa Novel Award in 1997.
Quarantine is a 1997 novel by Jim Crace. It won the Costa Novel Award in 1997.
On 2 of the 20 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jim Crace
- First published
- 1997
- Length
- 256 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 1997
- Costa Novel Award winner, 1997
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Religion and faith, Psychological
Is Quarantine worth reading?
2 of the 20 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Costa Novel Award and the Booker Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 1997) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 1997) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Quarantine
The edition we link to is the Picador paperback (2024), 256 pages.
- Publisher
- Picador (paperback, 2024)
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781035038633
How critics, prizes and readers rate Quarantine
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Quarantine
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