Kevin Jared Hosein: Hungry Ghosts

Cover: 9781526644459 | Hungry Ghosts | Kevin Jared Hosein | Taschenbuch | Paperback | XIV

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* A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 *
'A shimmering slice of Trinidadian gothic . . . Sumptuous, brilliantly written' THE TIMES'An astonishing novel - linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive and psychologically profound' BERNARDINE EVARISTO

'Deeply impressive . . . Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page' HILARY MANTEL

'The biggest, most frightening, beautiful and alive novel I've read in as long as I can remember' EVIE WYLD
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A 2023 highlight for: Financial Times * Guardian * Evening Standard * Daily Mail * BBC NewsThe music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air...

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. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building of wood and tin, divided into rooms occupied by whole families. 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.

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. But as the mystery of Dalton's disappearance unfolds their lives become hellishly entwined, and the small community altered forever.

Hungry Ghosts is a mesmerising novel about violence, religion, family and class, rooted in the wild and pastoral landscape of 1940s colonial central Trinidad.
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Über den Autor

Kevin Jared Hosein is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, fiction winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It had also been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, regionally in 2015 and overall in 2018. His previous novels include The Repenters, which was shortlisted for the Fiction OCM Bocas Prize, and The Beast of Kukuyo, which received a Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature. Both were also longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. He has been published in numerous anthologies and outlets, including Esquire, Wasafiri, Lightspeed, Granta, BBC Radio 4 and Perspective. He lives in Trinidad and Tobago.

Zusammenfassung

This is a Trinidadian novel that plays with traditional storytelling techniques - it's a big story about family and class and power, hooked on an unforgettable image of a house on a hill and the people who live in the village below

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XIV 340 S.
ISBN-13:	9781526644459
ISBN-10:	1526644452
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	567754
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hosein, Kevin Jared
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	194 x 127 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Kevin Jared Hosein
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,262 kg