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Hungry Ghosts

✍ Scribed by Kevin Jared Hosein

Book ID: 111310784
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780063213395

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✦ Synopsis

"This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page." -- Hilary Mantel

**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 **

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 of wood and tin, 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...

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