Miguel Street

Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book 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.

Miguel Street

Author: Vidiadhar S. Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Miguel Street

Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435989545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
The time is World War II, the setting a derelict street in Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain. In this tender early novel, Naipaul renders the residents' lives (and the legends that arise around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Green Days by the River

Author: Michael Anthony
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435989552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Another perceptive novel about a boy on the edge of adult responsibilities. It is the story of Shellie, a Trinidadian boy who moves to a new village and there meets two girls. He is charmed by Rosalie but he is attracted to the more cheerful and accessible Joan. Introduction by Gareth Griffiths.

Miguel Street

Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788474440454
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 222

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Miguel Street

Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789722023054
Category : Boys
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 207

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Miguel street

Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782264019134
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 231

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Miguel Street

Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788439710509
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : es
Pages : 0

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Caribbean Literature. A critical analysis of the issues raised in texts by Mais, Lamming, Naipaul and Walcott

Author: Mathias Mwinzi
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668359415
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 15

Book Description
Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Carribean, , language: English, abstract: Caribbean literature is the combination of works from the islands of the Caribbean. The Caribbean islands are also called the home of the noble savage because they were islands of primitive men. These islands have no large mass of land and are distant from the rest of the world. The attachment of the dwellers to their individual islands have been a problem to the growth of a broader and unified Caribbean culture. To most Caribbean writers their landscapes are an important aspect of literature. The Caribbean writers have similar issues that they raise in their text because they share similar social, economical, political and historical challenges. This is because literature writers write texts that mirror their societies. Issues that are raised in literary texts from the Caribbean texts vary from discrimination, role of women, violence, weak family units and disillusionment

House of Lords and Commons

Author: Ishion Hutchinson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374714541
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
A stunning collection that traverses the borders of culture and time, from the 2011 winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love. These poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea. House of Lords and Commons testifies to the particular courage it takes to wade unsettled, uncertain, and unfettered in the wake of our shared human experience.