Miguel Street
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
A sun-drenched street in Port of Spain, Trinidad, becomes the entire world for a young boy growing up amid a cast of unforgettable misfits, dreamers, and failures in V. S. Naipaul's Miguel Street. First published in 1959, this linked collection of seventeen vignettes chronicles the lives of the street's eccentric inhabitants — the boastful, the broken, and the absurdly comic — as seen through the eyes of a sharp, quietly observant narrator who is slowly coming of age against the backdrop of colonial Trinidad. Each chapter presents a portrait of a different character, from the carpenter Popo who builds the thing without a name to the poet B. Wordsworth, constructing a mosaic of a community caught between aspiration and resignation with a tone that is simultaneously tender and lacerating. Naipaul's prose is deceptively spare, wielding irony and pathos with masterful precision to illuminate the tragicomedy of postcolonial life — a theme that would animate his entire literary career and contribute to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Miguel Street stands as a foundational text in Caribbean literature, arguing through its very structure that community identity is assembled from the sum of its most flawed and human parts. The Russell Edition, published by Andre Deutsch, attests to the novel's enduring canonical status. For readers who have never visited Miguel Street, the journey promises to be one they will not soon forget.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
A sun-drenched street in Port of Spain, Trinidad, becomes the entire world for a young boy growing up amid a cast of unforgettable misfits, dreamers, and failures in V. S. Naipaul's Miguel Street. First published in 1959, this linked collection of seventeen vignettes chronicles the lives of the street's eccentric inhabitants — the boastful, the broken, and the absurdly comic — as seen through the eyes of a sharp, quietly observant narrator who is slowly coming of age against the backdrop of colonial Trinidad. Each chapter presents a portrait of a different character, from the carpenter Popo who builds the thing without a name to the poet B. Wordsworth, constructing a mosaic of a community caught between aspiration and resignation with a tone that is simultaneously tender and lacerating. Naipaul's prose is deceptively spare, wielding irony and pathos with masterful precision to illuminate the tragicomedy of postcolonial life — a theme that would animate his entire literary career and contribute to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Miguel Street stands as a foundational text in Caribbean literature, arguing through its very structure that community identity is assembled from the sum of its most flawed and human parts. The Russell Edition, published by Andre Deutsch, attests to the novel's enduring canonical status. For readers who have never visited Miguel Street, the journey promises to be one they will not soon forget.