The Disappearers (US)
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From Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings: a propulsive novel about a murder in 1980s Jamaica and its tragic consequences.
In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. One night when the men are together a mob savagely attacks them, killing one of the men.
For the survivors, their recovery is as much emotional as it is physical: As they heal, each man grapples with the violence, the hatred, and the rage that the attack made plain. Some try to ignore what the attack unearthed, while others double down on retribution.
In The Disappearers, Marlon James has written a riveting and deeply human story of men forced to make compromises to survive that the society they live in demands.
