Feeding the Ghosts

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 230. Grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; mallard green endpapers. Jacket illustration by Marianna Kennedy.

Signed by Author to title page.

D'Aguiar's third novel. Shortlisted for the 1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). The lone survivor of human cargo thrown overboard by disease-fearing crew challenges an insurance claim by the captain of a slave ship. Inspired by a visit D'Aguiar made to the Merseyside Maritime Museum and based on the Zong massacre that took place mid-Atlantic in 1871. Past winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the David Higham Award. "Fred D'Aguiar has fashioned a novel of great power and beauty... The writing is luminous and poetic, without any loss of precision or sharpness of observation." –Barry Unsworth, Sunday Times