Hungry Ghosts
by Kevin Jared Hosein · 2023
Literary Fiction · ranked #260 in category
Winner · The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2024
In 1940s rural Trinidad, the disappearance of a wealthy landowner sets off a chain of events that exposes the brutal inequalities between a barracks of poor labourers and the estate that employs them. Hosein's Walter Scott Prize-winning novel is a richly textured portrait of colonial-era Trinidad's caste and class divisions, drawing on Hindu mythology and the island's specific historical layers.
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