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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
โA stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say โSlum!โ because he could see no more.โ But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidadโs capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. Thereโs Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build โthe thing without a name.โ Thereโs 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. Thereโs 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 unnamedโbut precociously observantโneighborhood 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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