| International Standard Book Number |
9780593717226 (electronic book)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217433896 (international edition)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593717202 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593717201 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
James, Marlon, 1970- author.
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| Title Statement |
The disappearers / Marlon James.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xiv, 616 pages ; 25 cm.
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| General Note |
"A novel"--Dust jacket.
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| General Note |
"The Booker Prize 2026 longlisted"--Cover.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"An unflinching exploration of queer life in Jamaica during the 1980s and 1990s"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"On a day in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1988, eight men come together to begin rehearsals for a play. Though they are strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: they are gay in a country that wants nothing to do with them. One night the men are savagely attacked and one of them is killed. As the survivors heal, each man finds that he must confront the bigotry and homophobia that the attack laid bare. Some of the men try to ignore what the murder unearthed. Some embrace their rage. Others simply vanish into thin air. All of them are forever scarred by what happened. In 'The disappearers,' Marlon James has written the powerful and unflinching story of the men who must grapple with the hatred, alienation, and shame they face in a world that refuses to accept them. By turns epic and intimate, violent and forgiving, this is above all a deeply human story of acceptance and insight as only Marlon James can tell it."-- Front flap of dust jacket.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
LGBTQ+ people Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay men 20th century Jamaica Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Homophobia 20th century Jamaica Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder 20th century Jamaica Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hate crimes 20th century Jamaica Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Jamaica Social conditions 20th century Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Queer fiction.
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