![]() ![]() Not far from the barrack rises the manor house of Dalton and Marlee Changoor, rich landowners who live in considerable luxury and splendour. The main protagonists reside in the barrack, which is home to the labouring family the Saroops: Hans, Shweta, and their son Krishna. ![]() Like those hungry ghosts, the inhabitants of Bell village are in search of fulfilment, prosperity, upward mobility, a better life. “The most direct influence was, of course, the titular Hungry Ghosts in East Asian mythology-forever wanting, forever insatiated.” “The majesty and poetry of the writing had some influence on prose,” he explains. When Kevin Jared Hosein wrote his novel Hungry Ghosts (Ecco, 2023), set in Trinidad in the 1940s, he kept the ancient Indian texts, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana by his side. ![]() And there is no other world out there but this one.” - Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts ![]()
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