Set in 1940s rural Trinidad, Kevin Jared Hosein's debut novel Hungry Ghosts reflects on the fractures left for the Southern Caribbean island by a complex colonial legacy.
The book arose from conversations Hosein had with his grandfather about his life as a young man.
Hosein describes the 1940s as a dark time, with the US military stationed there at the invitation of the British. Trinidad and Tobago gained independence in 1962.
A teacher based in Trinidad, Hosein won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018.
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