Marlon James and the Horrors of Vanishing

In “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize winner returns to Jamaica with a furious epic about homophobia, violence, and survival.

The Tuesday Review

(Riverhead)

You’ll have to read Marlon James’s new novel, The Disappearers, wearing asbestos gloves. The pages of this incomparable epic are fueled by desire and torched by rage.

The author, who won a Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings and then began a trilogy of mind-blowing African fantasies, has returned to Jamaica, hi…