Miguel Street
Registered by frutz of Mersch / Miersch, Kanton Mersch Luxembourg on 3/21/2011
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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.
Read for the 2011 666 challenge for Trinidad and Tobago
This is my first book from Naipaul and I definetly will read more of his works. The different chapters all present a character living in Miguel street and the life stories of these extraordinary people are both funny and sad. Miguel street seems like a world of its own with complicated relationships between the different inhabitants.
I bought this copy second-hand and the first half of the book is heavily annotated but the book is still in good shape.
“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.
Read for the 2011 666 challenge for Trinidad and Tobago
This is my first book from Naipaul and I definetly will read more of his works. The different chapters all present a character living in Miguel street and the life stories of these extraordinary people are both funny and sad. Miguel street seems like a world of its own with complicated relationships between the different inhabitants.
I bought this copy second-hand and the first half of the book is heavily annotated but the book is still in good shape.
Journal Entry 2 by frutz at Shared Bookshelf LCSB BT2 Building in Sanem / Suessem, Kanton Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg on Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (10/4/2016 UTC) at Shared Bookshelf LCSB BT2 Building in Sanem / Suessem, Kanton Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg
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Happy reading!