Miguel Street
Books | Fiction / Cultural Heritage
3.8
V. S. Naipaul
To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital, their neighbourhood 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;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. Their lives (and the legends their neighbours construct around them) are rendered by V. S. Naipaul with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion in this tender, funny novel.
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Author
V. S. Naipaul
Pages
224
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Published Date
2012-11-13
ISBN
0307370615 9780307370617
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"6/2/09 pg15-From reading these 2 stories, I noticed that the narrator compares the characters Popo and Bogart and says they are very much alike. I agree because Bogart is sort of nice but comes back and is mean, leaves, comes back AGAIN, and he is all nice to the children and the police arrest him. Popo is different, he is a nice guy, a "carpenter" who always likes to talk. One day, his wife runs off with his gardener and he is depressed, he then leaves Miguel Street for a couple of days and it turns out he went to Arima to beat up his gardener. He came back and worked 24/7 to refurnish his house. then he shows up in the paper, apparently he is in jail because all the things he used to clean his house was stolen"
Finn Hughes