Marlon JamesLiterary Fiction · Fiction·b. 1970
The Disappearers
Synopsis
Kingston, Jamaica, 1988 — eight gay men rehearsing a play are attacked by a mob, and one is killed. The novel follows the survivors in the aftermath, tracing how each copes with trauma, rage, and the compromises demanded of them by a hostile society.
The Disappearers is from the Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings.
How it reads
Prose complexity 10/10
Content warnings (3)
ViolenceGraphic ViolenceTrauma















