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Hardback | 352 pages162 x 243 x 34 | 658g
When Dalton Changoor goes missing and Marlee’s safety is compromised, farmhand Hans is lured by the promise of a handsome stipend to move to the farm as watchman. by Hosein, Kevin Jared | Fiction & related items Published 16/02/2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom Hardback | 352 pages162 x 243 x 34mm | 658g From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad—and a chilling mystery that shows how interconnected their lives truly are. A 2023 highlight for: Financial Times * Guardian * Evening Standard * Daily Mail * BBC News Among these families are the Saroops – Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, who live hard lives of backbreaking work, grinding poverty and devotion to faith. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm’s shadow. Hungry Ghosts is a mesmerising novel about violence, religion, family and class, rooted in the wild and pastoral landscape of 1940s colonial central Trinidad. 'Hungry Ghosts is an astonishing novel - linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive and psychologically profound' Bernadine Evaristo The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air.
Published on 16 February 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.
Reviews
Bukola Akinyemi
All of these make for an intriguing story. Everyone should read this book. This is one book you can go into blind and be pleasantly surprised.
Workmen living in crumbling overcrowded barracks with their families and mischievous twin boys left to fend for themselves. ‘And lemme tell you, life is what you make it. Small room, big house.
A missing husband and a rich wife left alone in a big house on a hill, mysterious incidents happening around the house. Life could be good or bad in both’Set in 1940s Trinidad, this is one multilayered story with characters that all develop through the book.
It’s a story about class and the extend people go to cross the class divide. This book has so many themes and each one is explored deeply.
The author’s stlye of writing is so engaging, you will be completely immersed in the story and the lives of the characters.
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