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‘The Disappearers’ is a fiercely personal novel that hits like a tidal wave

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The popular image of Jamaica is of an outpost of pleasure, with shimmering white beaches, James Bond seducing sexy women in mountain resorts and Bob Marley singing his gorgeous songs of unity and love. But it’s also one of the more dangerously homophobic countries on earth.

That reality forms the backdrop to The Disappearers, the blazing new novel by Marlon James, the gay Jamaican writer who won the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of

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