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Vintage
July 2002
On Sale: July 23, 2002
ISBN: 0375713875
EAN: 9780375713873
Kindle: B0046A9JDO
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Fiction Classics | Multicultural
“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just
say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its
residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a
complete world, where everybody is quite different from
everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects
his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.”
There’s Man-man, who goes from running for public office
to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot,
the bully with glass tear ducts. There’s the lovely Mrs.
Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this
tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their
lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around
them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.
Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed–but
precociously observant–neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is
a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly
melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life
on every page.
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