Title: The hungry ghosts
Description: Raped then murdered in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942, Lin Shui's 'Hungry Ghost' clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is 12-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government.
Subjects: Fiction, Ghost stories, History, Hong kong (china), fiction, Fiction, horror
Places: China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Time periods: 20th century