The Disappearers - Hardcover
by Marlon James
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marlon JamesTheme:Cultural Region/Caribbean, Sex & Gender/Gay, Topical/LGBTQ+Publish date:9/1/2026Pages:640
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593717202ISBN-10:0593717201UPC:9780593717202Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, World Literature, LiteraryBook Topic:Gay, Caribbean & West IndiesSize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCN06H8H7J
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE "This masterpiece is the novel of the decade, if not the century... The Disappearers places [James] near the front of the line, a decade or two from now, for the Nobel Prize." -The New York Times "Harrowing, hilarious, magnificent ...this novel will be read decades from now, pored over in seminars and bookmarked on subway commutes ... [James'] defiant queer epic belongs to us all." -The Boston Globe "Among Marlon James's most ambitious and history-making works... James is a singular literary talent." -Booker Prize judge's citation From Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings the electrifying story of the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its far-reaching consequences In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them are gay. And they live in a world that refuses to accept them. One night the men are savagely beaten and one of them is killed. As their bodies heal, the survivors begin to face the hatred and contempt that the violence laid bare. Some try to ignore what happened. Others double down on retribution. Some disappear completely. In this spellbinding novel, Marlon James has written a propulsive crime story that is also a deeply human account of connection and acceptance. Full of fascinating characters, biting humor, and unapologetic sex, The Disappearers is both a thrilling page-turner and a finely etched portrait of queer life.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593717202ISBN-10:0593717201UPC:9780593717202Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, World Literature, LiteraryBook Topic:Gay, Caribbean & West IndiesSize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCN06H8H7J
Marlon James is the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of A Brief History of Seven Killings; the bestselling and National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; as well as the bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King; The Book of Night Women; and John Crow's Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, James's novels have won the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, and have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Image Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and named in 2019 one of Time magazine's one hundred most influential people in the world, James lives in New York City.
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