Quarantine

By Juan Goytisolo

Book Overview

Quarantine, a novel by one of Spain s most provocative writers, recounts the forty days in which, according to Islamic tradition, the soul wanders between death and eternity, still in possession of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0704370727
• ISBN13: 9780704370722
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Quartet
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Magnificent journey into a land between life and death

Goytisolo continues one of the boldest adventures in modern literature with this eloquent journey into the world between life and death where, according to Muslim belief, the soul lingers on its way to final judgment. Written in Goytisolo's hallmark style of dark lyricism, in an intense, almost oratorical, diction, the novel transcends the possibility of its own genre - it quarantines you the reader in a dark and fierce joy before releasing you into the questionable light.