" 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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