Jim Crace is a novelist who makes no religious claims. He is a maker of worlds that
have dark resonances, caught between time and eternity, that have their roots in forms
of textuality and language that begin in the Hebrew Bible and may be traced in
Christianity through the texts of the desert fathers to the writings of T. E. Lawrence
and Gertrude Bell. He is a deceiver whose deceptions reveal truths that are familiar yet
strange and mysterious
