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Miguel Street

Miguel Street

Author(s): V S Naipaul

Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): 1940s

Miguel Street is a collection of linked short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago. The stories draw on the author’s childhood memories of Port of Spain. The street of the title appears to be a fictionalised version of Luis Street where the author lived with his family in the 1940s. As well as writing about the Hindu community to which he belongs, Naipaul references black culture including a number of calypso lyrics which relate to the themes of the book.

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