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  "title": "Eight gay men met in secret to rehearse a play. This Booker-nominated novel reveals the atrocities that followed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/eight-gay-men-met-in-secret-to-rehearse-a-play-this-booker-nominated",
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  "summary": "The Booker Prize winner’s new novel is a maximalist, polyphonic epic that traces the devastating aftermath of a hate crime.",
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