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   What makes Hungry Ghosts a good read?

   • Hungry Ghosts is, at its core, a stirring family drama marked by betrayal. Hosein’s tender characterization of each character’s emotions, desires, and flaws makes for an absorbing read on its own, but his astute portrayal of class, religion and culture is what makes Hungry Ghosts remarkable.

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   Is hungry ghost a good book?

   • Hungry Ghost is rich in atmosphere, you feel like you are transported to Barrack and immersed into the lives of the people there. You get so invested in how the story will go and that all goes back to Hosein’s writing. The writing in this book is absolutely impeccable, the characters’ stories are told with care and deeply tender.

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   Is hungry ghosts worth reading in 2023?

   • One of the most-hyped debuts of the year is Hungry Ghosts by the Caribbean author Kevin Jared Hosein. Featuring on many ones-to-watch lists for 2023, it also has plaudits from Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel and Evie Wyld, who deems it the “the biggest, most frightening, beautiful and alive novel I’ve read in as long as I can remember”.

   Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein: Promising debut about violence

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   What is hungry ghosts about?

   • While its plot sometimes gets lost amid all the fine detail, Hungry Ghosts is a deeply intimate vignette of life in Trinidad in the 1930s.

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   What is Kevin Hosein's story 'Hungry Ghosts' about?

   • Kevin Hosein's tale is a remarkable tale of life between the rich and the poor, how no matter how much money you have, you are never truly sated. Instead, you are always looking for or missing something money cannot buy. In Hungry Ghosts, we follow the lives of 2 separate families and their situations.

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   What is the setting of Hungry Ghosts?

   • In Hungry Ghosts, Hosein skilfully conjures up the lush, pastoral landscape of colonial 1940s Trinidad: “A persistent wind blew a spiral of foliage across the road. A quintet of kiskadees kept eyes on her from a hog plum tree.”

   Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein: Promising debut about violence

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   Mar 21, 2023 · Hungry Ghosts is, at its core, a stirring family drama marked by betrayal. Hosein’s tender characterization of each character’s emotions, desires, and flaws makes for an absorbing read on its own, but his astute portrayal of class, religion and culture is what makes Hungry Ghosts remarkable.

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   Feb 7, 2023 · Hungry Ghosts is a monster of a book from Kevin Jared Hosein, a dark voyage through the heart of 1940s Trinidad. This is historical fiction at its best: immersive in its setting and haunting in its prose.

   • 3.8/5 (2.1K)
   • Format: Hardcover

   • Author: Kevin Jared Hosein

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   Feb 7, 2023 · Hungry Ghosts is an astonishing book—linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive, and psychologically profound. Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters and Everything Under Hungry Ghosts is beautiful, biblical, vast in scope and power, ringing with an energy that blasts from the intricate language.

   • 5/5 (7)
   • Reviewer: Jane McCormack

   • Author: Kevin Jared Hosein

5. www.straitstimes.com › life › artsBook review: Hungry Ghosts a potent thriller where absence ...

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   Mar 4, 2023 · By Kevin Jared Hosein. Fiction/Bloomsbury/Paperback/352 pages/$29.95/Books Kinokuniya. 5 stars. Several absences haunt Kevin Jared Hosein’s first novel for adults – chief of which is the...

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   Feb 22, 2023 · Author: Kevin Jared Hosein. ISBN-13: 9781526644480. Publisher: Bloomsbury. Guideline Price: £16.99. One of the most-hyped debuts of the year is Hungry Ghosts by the Caribbean author Kevin Jared...

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   Feb 7, 2023 · Starting with the disappearance of secretive landowner Dalton Changoor, the blood-brother swearing of four local lads, and a drowned dog, Hosein—a celebrated author from Trinidad and Tobago—plunges readers into the turbulent stream of Bell Village life on a not-always-paradisiacal-seeming Caribbean island.

8. www.the-tls.co.uk › literature › fictionHungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein | Book review | The TLS

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   In his second novel, Hungry Ghosts, Kevin Jared Hosein shows with signal power and understanding how these disparate yet entwined existences affect each other. The mysterious disappearance of Dalton Changoor is the initial plot premiss, but Hungry Ghosts is no whodunnit.