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13 nov 2012 · Miguel Street. V. S. Naipaul. Knopf Canada, Nov 13, 2012 - Fiction - 224 pages. 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 ...
About this audiobook. “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 ...
Miguel Street is the story of the unnamed narrator, (easily identified as the author himself), and his childhood memories in war-torn Trinidad and Tobago. An interesting method of storytelling is implemented here, where each chapter is led by a different character, however each of those protagonists appears as a supporting character in other chapters.
23,63 € 1 Nuovo a partire da 23,63 €. 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 ...
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About Miguel Street. A tender, funny novel written with the verve of Dickens and the passion of Chekhov, set during World War II in a derelict neighborhood in Trinidad’s capital and narrated by an unnamed boy—from the Nobel Prize-winning author.“One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.” —Newsday ...
The setting is Miguel Street in Port of Spain, Trinidad, roughly the 1940's. The narrator is an East Indian who arrives on Miguel Street as a youngster when his mother retrieves him from his negligent father. When he's not in school, he spends a lot of time hanging out with residents on the street where you can see trouble coming.
Abstract The present paper attempts the relationship of gender and their beliefsbased on V.S. Naipaul‟s novel Miguel Street. Through a brief discussion on the cultural construction of gender, it elaborates the marginal positions of gender which depicts the male bounded society which is conventional and not accepted in the present society.
