The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai

The Hungry Ghosts

Shyam Selvadurai

464 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much in life may be reborn as "hungry ghosts" spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full. Six year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmother's mansion in Sri Lanka. While civil unrest bre...

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