{"product_id":"9780385698450","title":"The Disappearers","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This masterpiece is the novel of the decade, if not the century . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Disappearers\u003c\/i\u003e places [James] near the front of the line, a decade or two from now, for the Nobel Prize.” ―\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Harrowing, hilarious, magnificent . . . this novel will be read decades from now, pored over in seminars and bookmarked on subway commutes. . . . [James’s] defiant queer epic belongs to us all.” ―\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Among Marlon James’s most ambitious and history-making works . . . James is a singular literary talent.” ―Booker Prize judge’s citation\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e, a propulsive novel about the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its tragic consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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\u003cbr\u003ehomophobia 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Disappearer\u003c\/i\u003es,   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.","brand":"Marlon James","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50681072189698,"sku":"9780385698450","price":40.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/0012\/8514\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e3cce02e-f591-47fd-b2cf-aefad1248ca0.jpg?v=1791395965","url":"https:\/\/www.downtowncomics.ca\/products\/9780385698450","provider":"Downtown Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}