The Disappearers ~ UK SIGNED & DATED EXCLUSIVE FIRST/FIRST
Language: English
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2026
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
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SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST UK EDITION, first printing. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by Marlon James directly to specially bound publisher's signature page including date and year of publication! NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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.…
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- Title
- The Disappearers ~ UK SIGNED & DATED EXCLUSIVE FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- James, Marlon
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241714400
- ISBN 13
- 9780241714409
- Edition
- 1st Edition, Special Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1.654 pounds
- Dimensions
- 15.6 centimeters width by 24 centimeters height by 4 centimeters depth
MARLON JAMES'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS
‘Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .'
The Disappearers is Marlon James’s triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings – a place of heat and chaos, and of danger for anyone outside the heteronormal.
So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston in 1988, answering the casting call for an openly queer play, they are already taking a big risk. But that is nothing compared to what rains down on them when a mob descends on one of their rehearsals.
By the end of this night, one man is dead, all are injured, and two subsequently disappear. As the survivors heal, each man finds he must confront the bigotry and homophobia that the attack laid bare. Some try to forget; some embrace their rage; and some simply vanish – but all are forever scarred.
As one of the victims puts it, ‘there’s a difference between when something ends and when something stops’. And this story won’t stop until both the disappearers and the perpetrators have been tracked, along trails both hot and cold, and an ending reached.
Epic and intimate, violent and forgiving, The Disappearers is a tour de force which only Marlon James could have written – both an unflinching portrait of the hatred and shame faced by gay men in a society which refuses to accept them, and a deeply human story of acceptance and insight.
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