Kevin Jared Hosein
Kevin Jared Hosein is a Trinidadian author and teacher, known for the novels The Repenters and Hungry Ghosts. He won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story Passage, and his work often explores class, faith, and violence in Trinidad and Tobago.
Books
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1. Hungry Ghosts
In mid-20th-century Trinidad, the sudden disappearance of a wealthy landowner draws a struggling barrack-yard family into the perilous orbit of his hilltop estate when his frightened wife hires a laborer to stand guard. As money, desire, and the promise of escape unsettle loyalties, the intertwined lives of cane workers, preachers, and the elite reveal a world steeped in superstition and simmering violence. Through shifting perspectives, the story exposes how poverty and power warp faith and family, building inexorably toward a harrowing reckoning for both the estate and the barracks.
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