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Hungry Ghosts
Winner of the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Hungry Ghosts
Winner of the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
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Product details
| Published | 16 Feb 2023 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781526644480 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Immersive and beautifully written, it was impossible to put down
Independent
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Magnificent . . . A tale in the Gothic tradition: think Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea or Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy . . . A superlative book that deserves to win prizes
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Lush, lyrical . . . If you read it now, you'll be able to brag about it when it's on all the literary prize shortlists
Independent
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The language is as lush, moody and thrilling as the landscape . . . Electrifying
New York Times Book Review
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A barnstorming fable about the perils of upward mobility, set in the dog days of colonial rule in the author's native Trinidad . . . Told with riveting verve, this is a terrific novel, pegged to national as well as domestic strife, peopled by flesh-and blood characters and plotted to keep us on tenterhooks about the story's pole-axing finale
Daily Mail
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Hungry Ghosts reads like a Greek tragedy relocated to a gothic Caribbean setting worthy of Jean Rhys - a story of cursed families and inherited vengeance, inexplicable horrors and impossible dreams and a country haunted, as Hosein reminds us, by the ghosts of the indentured . . . [A] sumptuous, brilliantly written novel
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