The story opens with lush descriptions of the river, the air, the trees. There’s a short story by Jack London, All Gold Canyon, that focuses on a violent skirmish between a gold miner and a bandit.
It’s so vivid it feels like another character in the storyĪ. Can you please explain a little about the role of the landscape of Trinidad in your novel. My mind’s image of the aristocratic woman in her elegant but muddied white dress became one of the central images I came back to, chapter to chapter. So Marlee Changoor from the novel was the trunk, all other characters branching off from her. That incident was only a footnote in my article, but as I ruminated on it, a character and concept came to life in my mind. Her intended revenge was to have the village demolished, which didn’t happen in the end. She had tripped on a chuckhole and landed in some mud, prompting some villagers to laugh at her. A story that popped up was that of an aristocratic woman who had visited their street back in the 1940s or so. I had often visited the village I grew up in, listening to stories told by my family, especially my aunts and grandfather. A few years ago, I was commissioned by the Commonwealth Writers group to pen an article about Trinidad and Tobago, mainly focused on culture or history, or something untold.
Can you give us some insight into how the idea for this novel took root?Ī. Thank you so much for being our guest author and contributing an extract of Hungry Ghosts.
He has published two books for Young Adults, The Repenters and The Beast of Kukuyo, both of which were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.Īn extract of his first novel for adults, Hungry Ghosts (Bloomsbury, £15.29), appears in the Heart Issue of Popshot Quarterly. In 2018 he won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Kevin Jared Hosein, 37, is an award-winning Caribbean short story writer, poet and novelist who worked as a secondary school Biology teacher for over a decade. The Repenters author talks to Popshot editor Matilda Battersby about his first novel for adults.
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