Why a Booktrail?
1940s: The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air…
Hungry Ghosts
What you need to know before your trail
On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm’s shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building of wood and tin, divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops – Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, who live hard lives of backbreaking work, grinding poverty and devotion to faith.
When Dalton Changoor goes missing and Marlee’s safety is compromised, farmhand Hans is lured by the promise of a handsome stipend to move to the farm as watchman. But as the mystery of Dalton’s disappearance unfolds their lives become hellishly entwined, and the small community altered forever.
Locations
Reset- Caribbean - Trinidad and Tobago
- A: Churchill Roosevelt Hwy
- B: River Estate Museum
- C: Lopinot Historical Complex
Travel Guide
1940s Trinidad
Bell Village – ficitonal – home to people just trying to survive as best they can
There is a sugar cane place and plantation. Dalton Changoor, owner of the plantation goes missing and in a town where life is cheap and possessions even cheaper, people can do what they want with what and who they like.
This is a violent and rough landscape. One which the highway is set to splice in two and where Bell Village sits in plain sight. Here the landscape is one of tensions of all kinds: religious, ethnic, racial and more besides. If you are a woman, you are not a human being but a posession.
There are some very violent scenes in this novel but then this is reality in 1940s Trinidad. Hard-hitting and eye-opening.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Hungry Ghosts
Destination/location: Trinidad Author/guide: Kevin Jared Hosein Departure Time: 11940s
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