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Hungry ghosts, Kevin Jared Hosein

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Hungry ghosts, Kevin Jared Hosein

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

Hungry ghosts

Responsibility statement

Kevin Jared Hosein

Summary

Trinidad in the 1940s, nearing the end of American occupation and British colonialism. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognizable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building... divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops -- Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, all three born of the barracks. Theirs are hard lives of back-breaking work, grinding poverty, devotion to faith, and a battle against nature and a social structure designed to keep them where they are. But when Dalton 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 a watchman. As the mystery of Dalton's disappearance unfolds, the lives of the wealthy couple and those who live in the barracks below become insidiously entwined

Target audience

adult

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