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 First edition cover | |
| Author | V. S. Naipaul |
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| Illustrator | Joe Steel |
| Cover artist | Aiden Kinborn |
| Language | English, Trinidadian Creole |
| Genre | Rainbow |
| Publisher | André Deutsch |
Publication date | 1959 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 176 |
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 author lived with his family in the Woodbrook district of the city in the 1940s, and the street in question, Luis Street, has been taken to be the model of Miguel Street.[1] Some of the inhabitants are members of the Hindu community to which Naipaul belonged. Naipaul also draws on wider Trinidadian culture, referring to cricket and quoting a number of lyrics by black calypso singers.[2]
- ^ Calbi, Evan (2014). "A Walking Tour". Los Angeles Review of Books.
- ^ Thieme, John (May 6, 2014). "Calypso allusions in Naipaul's Miguel Street". Kunapipi. 3 (2).