num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: Miguel Street
titlecomplete: Miguel Street
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, School, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4676
places: Trinidad
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Vintage Canada