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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 knavery often rises from real kinship with pathos and tragedy. . . . Naipaul is at his best in these swift caricatures of human depravity.? ?_San Francisco Chronicle_ ?Amusing and poignant. . . . Excellent reading.? ?_Chicago Tribune_ ?Naipaul does not tell stories. By some miraculous sleight-of-hand he takes you to Port of Spain and shows you the rich, bawdy, consequential lives of the Trinidadians, as though there were no intervening veil of words. . . . I rather suspect the mantle of Chekhov has fallen on Mr. Naipaul?s shoulders.? ?Robert Payne, Saturday Review -- Review Product Description “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

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Author

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Publisher

Vintage international - Vintage books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780676975635

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.93 / 5 (2,398 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14