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“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.Review“One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.” –Mel Gussow, Newsday“Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish Row of Trinidad’s Port of Spain–its citizens a loony multitude whose knav

Who reads Miguel Street?

Author

V. S. Naipaul

Publisher

Vintage international - Vintage books

Published

1964

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375713873

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.93 / 5 (2,398 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14