Jim Crace

Being Dead

Published 1999 · 195 pages

"Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell - just look at them - that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells.

Harvest

Quarantine

A re-imagining of the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness being tempted by the devil.