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| miguel street by vs naipaul: Miguel Street V. S. Naipaul, 2012-11-13 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 by vs naipaul: Miguel Street V. S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 2000 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. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Miguel Street Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1959 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. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul, 2011 Traditional Chinese edition of A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story of Mr. Biswas's struggle for independence, but more importantly, it is his fight for dignity and a life with meaning. A House for Mr. Biswas is touted as Naipaul's finest novel. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul V. S. Naipaul, 2011-04-12 For the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. • “Naipaul is the world’s writer, a master of language and perception.” —The New York Times Book Review Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize– winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting. No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Half a Life V. S. Naipaul, 2012-03-15 One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul, 2018-08-21 In the brilliant novel (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Mystic Masseur V. S. Naipaul, 2010-10-20 The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a Dickensian novel that traces the unlikely career of a failed schoolteacher and village masseur who becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. “No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.” —The New York Review of Books In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel—his first—V. S. Naipaul chronicles the ascent of the impecunious village masseur Ganesh Ramsumair. To understand a little better, one has to realize that in the 1940s masseurs were the island’s medical practitioners of choice. As one character observes, “I know the sort of doctors they have in Trinidad. They think nothing of killing two, three people before breakfast.” Ganesh’s journey is variously aided and impeded by a Dickensian cast of rogues and eccentrics. There’s his skeptical wife, Leela, whose schooling has made her excessively, fond. of; punctuation: marks!; and Leela’s father, Ramlogan, a man of startling mood changes and an ever-ready cutlass. There’s the aunt known as The Great Belcher. There are patients pursued by malign clouds or afflicted with an amorous fascination with bicycles. Witty, tender, filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of Trinidad’s dusty Indian villages, The Mystic Masseur is Naipaul at his most expansive and evocative. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Middle Passage V. S. Naipaul, 1962 Naipul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, Trinidad. He offers a record of his impressions there and elsewhere in the West Indies and South America, and examines their common heritage of colonialism and slavery. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: India: A Wounded Civilization V. S. Naipaul, 2012-11-13 In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years before. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by repeated foreign invasions and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, and political memoirs -- but most of all on his conversations with ordinary Indians, from princes to engineers and feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India’s manifold complexities. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer Gillian Dooley, 2017-02-01 An introduction to the uncompromising artistic vision of the internationally acclaimed writer A survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer introduces readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds special satisfaction in overturning the vogue presuppositions of his peers. Gillian Dooley takes an expansive look at Naipaul's literary career, from Miguel Street to Magic Seeds. From readings of his fiction, nonfiction, travel books, and volumes of letters, she elucidates the connections between Naipaul's personal experiences as a Hindu Indian from Trinidad living an expatriate life and the precise, euphonious prose with which he is synonymous. Dooley assesses each of Naipaul's major publications in light of his stated intentions and beliefs, and she traces the development of his writing style over a forty-year career. Devoting separate chapters to three of his chief works, A House for Mr. Biswas, In a Free State, and The Enigma of Arrival, she analyzes their critical reception and the primacy of Naipaul's specific narrative style and voice. Dooley emphasizes that it is, above all, Naipaul's refusal to compromise his vision in order to flatter or appease that has made him a controversial writer. At the same time she sees the integrity with which he reports his subjective response to the world as essential to the lasting success of his work. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Miguel Street Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1981 |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Mimic Men V. S. Naipaul, 2011-12-14 A sober novel about a tempestuous and tormented soul carrying the burdens of postcolonialism in London. Winner of the W. H. Smith Literary Award. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Suffrage of Elvira Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1969 In this book, an old, comically timid and absent-minded man, Surujpat Harbans, runs for office, aided by superstition, bribes, and an aggressive compaign. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Enigma of Arrival V. S. Naipaul, 2011-04-20 The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • Naipaul's finest work. —Chicago Tribune A subtly incisive self-reckoning. —The Washington Post Book World The story of a writer’s singular journey – from one place to another, and from one state of mind to another. At the midpoint of the century, the narrator leaves the British colony of Trinidad and comes to the ancient countryside of England. And from within the story of this journey – of departure and arrival, alienation and familiarity, home and homelessness – the writer reveals how, cut off from his “first” life in Trinidad, he enters a “second childhood of seeing and learning.” Clearly autobiographical, yet woven through with remarkable invention, The Enigma of Arrival is as rich and complex as any novel we have had from this exceptional writer. The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction—of dreams, of reality—is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers. —Time Far and away the most curious novel I've read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I've ever read. —St. Petersburg Times |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: India V. S. Naipaul, 2017 An area of darkness: Semi-autobiographical account of the author's first visit to India, the land of his forebears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Here Comes the Sun: A Novel Nicole Dennis-Benn, 2016-06-06 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Named a Best Book of 2016 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Bustle, San Francisco Chronicle, The Root, BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, NYLON, Amazon, WBUR's On Point, the Barnes & Noble Review, and Amazon (Fiction & Literature) Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize Selected for the Grand Prix Litteraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers Longlisted for the ALA Over the Rainbow Award Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman—fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves—must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul, 2012-11-13 In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous -- and endless -- struggle to weaken their hold over him, and purchase a house of his own. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Conversations with V. S. Naipaul Feroza F. Jussawalla, 1997 This collection brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker with a free-ranging curiosity. In early interviews, mostly given to such fellow writers and colleagues as Derek Walcott and Eric Roach, Naipul is clipped, brusque, and clearly impatient with interviewers. More recent interviews, given primarily to journalists rather than literary figures, reveal a more mellow Naipaul, often warm, passionate, and forthcoming about his private life. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: In a Free State V. S. Naipaul, 2011-03-30 From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a riveting tour de force that examines emigration, dislocation, and dread. “The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.” —The New York Times Book Review No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people—Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife”—are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin’s Uganda. And the farther Naipaul’s protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Writer and the World V. S. Naipaul, 2012-03-22 During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for some time – are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the prism of his experience. Whether writing about Indian mutinies and despair, Mobutu’s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he demonstrates time and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which the world works. Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests powerfully not only to Naipaul’s status as the great English prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding. ‘All [of these essays] are worth reading (and rereading), both for the contemporary and historical information and insight they artfully impart and for what they tell us about a uniquely complex writer’ Spectator |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The World is what it is Patrick French, 2008 V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and non-fiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this enigmatic genius. V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, into an Indian family. French examines early privations, Naipaul’s life within a displaced community and his talent and fierce ambition at school, which won him a scholarship to Oxford at the age of seventeen. He describes how, once in England, homesickness and depression struck with great force, and the ways in which Naipaul, supported by his first wife, overcame his ‘double exile’, culminating in the production of early masterpieces such as A House for Mr Biswas, An Area of Darkness and In a Free State . Through the uncertainties of life in London, and later in Wiltshire, Naipaul and his wife were to stay together for over four decades, even after he embarked on an intense twenty-five-year love affair. As his reputation grew, as prizes and accolades were bestowed, as a second wave of breathtaking creation generated A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul found and sustained an extraordinary position both outside and at the centre of literary culture. Researched with the full cooperation of its Nobel Prize-winning subject, Patrick French traces with sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight the roots of V.S. Naipaul’s unparalleled gift, in what will become a landmark in biography. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: In the Castle of My Skin George Lamming, 2017-05-25 'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The Times 'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Vintage Naipaul Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 2004 Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “The most splendid writer of English alive today. . . . He looks into the mad eye of history and does not blink.” —The Boston Globe Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V.S. Naipaul is our most intelligent and unflinching observer of the collision between modern and traditional societies. His novels, essays, and reportage are distinguished by their wit, outrage, and compassion, and by a prophetic vision of individuals caught in the tectonic upheavals of history. Vintage Naipaul includes the prologue and first chapter of the novel A House for Mr. Biswas; a vignette from the novel Half a Life; “Jasmine” from The Overcrowded Barracoon; “Synthesis and Mimicry” from India: A Wounded Civilization; “A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa” from The Writer and the World; “Jack’s Garden” from his memoir The Enigma of Arrival; and the story “The Bomoh’s Son” from the collection Beyond Belief. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Dear Howard David Batterham, 2018-09-03 |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: A Way in the World V. S. Naipaul, 2011-04-20 The Nobel Prize-winning author—and one of literature's great travelers (Los Angeles Times)—spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Dickensian … a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work.—The New York Times “Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever: we go back all of us to the very beginning: in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings.” So observes the opening narrator of A Way in the World, and it is this conundrum—that the bulk of our inheritance must remain beyond our grasp—which suffuses this extraordinary work of fiction. Returning to the autobiographical mode he so brilliantly explored in The Enigma of Arrival, and writing here in the classic form of linked narrations, Naipaul constructs a story of remarkable resonance and power, remembrance and invention. It is the story of a writer’s lifelong journey towards an understanding of both the simple stuff of inheritance — language, character, family history — and the long interwoven strands of a deeply complicated historical past: “things barely remembered, things released only by the act of writing.” What he writes — and what his release of memory enables us to see — is a series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Caribbean: Raleigh’s final, shameful expedition to the New World; Francisco Miranda’s disastrous invasion of South America in the eighteenth century; the more subtle aggressions of the mid-twentieth-century English writer Foster Morris; the transforming and distorting peregrinations of Blair, the black Trinidadian revolutionary. Each episode is viewed through the clarifying lens of the narrator’s own post-colonial experience as a Trinidadian of Indian descent who, during the twilight of the Empire, immigrates to England, reinventing himself in order to escape the very history he is intent upon telling. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Mystic Masseur ; &, Miguel Street V. S. Naipaul, 2002 The Mystic Masseur tells the story of Ganesh and his journey from failed primary school teacher and masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE. Miguel Street, a very early novel, won the Somerset Maugham Award on its appearance in 1959. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Indian Trilogy V. S. Naipaul, 2016-11-17 AN AREA OF DARKNESS 'Brilliant ... tender, lyrical, explosive' Observer V.S. Naipaul was twenty-nine when he first visited India. This is his semi-autobiographical account-at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered-a revelation both of the country and of himself. INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION 'A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts' The Times Prompted by the Emergency of 1975, Naipaul casts a more analytical eye, convinced that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration. INDIA: A MILLION MUTINIES NOW 'Indispensable for anyone who wants seriously to come to grips with the experience of India' New York Times Book Review It is twenty-six years since Naipaul's first trip to India. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises-including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi-he focuses on the country's development since Independence. The author recedes, allowing Indians to tell the stories, and a dynamic oral history of the country emerges. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Masque of Africa V. S. Naipaul, 2010-10-19 Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Minty Alley Cyril Lionel Robert James, 1971 |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Listening Now Anjana Appachana, 2024-02-12 The story of Listening Now takes place before the events of Appachana’s 2023 critically acclaimed novel, Fear and Lovely. Mallika, a child given to weaving, is convinced that the lives of the mothers around her are dull and devoid of passion and fantasizes romantic love. The truth, which lies at the heart of this story, is completely different. Her mother, Padma, her mother’s sister, Shanta, her mother’s two friends, Madhu and Anu, and her grandmother, Rukmini, all hold wrenching secrets; their complex lives and longings are beyond the child Mallika’s comprehension. Set in 1950s and 1960s, this story encompasses the lives of two generations of women in a small, New Delhi neighbourhood, where conventional lives are lived on the surface, while below, secrets seethe—threatening to destroy everything that has been so carefully constructed to accommodate society’s structures and expectations. Rendered through six points of view, Listening Now captures the voices of these women; the spoken conversations as well as all that remains in the realm of silence. Shortlisted for the Crossword Prize when it was first published in 1998, Listening Now holds readers in its embrace from the very first line. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: A Brighter Sun Samuel Selvon, 2021-03-25 There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. 'Tiger thought, To my wife, I man when I sleep with she. To bap (father), I man if I drink rum. But to me, I no man yet.' Trinidad is in the turbulent throes of the Second World War, but the war feels quite far away to Tiger - young and inexperienced, he sets out to prove his manhood and independence. With his child-bride Urmilla, shy, bewildered and anxious, with two hundred dollars in cash and a milking cow, he sets out into the wilderness of adulthood. There is no map or directions for him to follow, he must learn for himself and find his own way. Suitable for readers aged 15 and above. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya, 2018-10-11 “This Is a Novel to Retain in Your Heart and Library” —Milwaukee Journal In the sun-baked fields of rural India, Rukmani and Nathan toil side by side, their love woven into the very fabric of the land. Their days are marked by the rhythm of seasons—the planting of rice saplings, the monsoon rains that breathe life into parched soil, and the harvest that sustains their family. But life is not idyllic. Famine stalks the village, and hunger gnaws at their bellies. Rukmani clings to hope, her spirit unyielding even as the world shifts around her. She witnesses the encroachment of modernity—the distant hum of factories, the allure of city lights—and wonders if progress will bring salvation or destruction. As Rukmani’s children grow, so do their dreams. Selvam, the eldest, seeks education beyond the village; Irawaddy, the daughter, yearns for love and security. Through it all, Rukmani remains the heart of their home, her hands stained with the colors of life—earth, blood, and sweat. Nectar in a Sieve is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Kamala Markandaya’s prose weaves a tapestry of love, loss, and endurance. Amidst the harsh realities of poverty and change, Rukmani’s unwavering love for Nathan becomes a beacon—a nectar that sustains them through hardship. “An elemental book. It has something better than power, the truth of distilled experience.” —New York Herald Tribune “Unique in poetic beauty, in classically restrained and controlled tragedy.”—Dorothy Canfield Fisher, noted author and critic “Will wring your hearts.”—Associated Press “A superb job in telling her story.”—Christian Science Monitor |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: The Web of Tradition John Thieme, 1987 Uses of Allusion in V S Nailpaul's Fiction,A study of one of the Caribbean's major and most,controversial novelists, V S Naipual, who has won,several of the world's literary prizes including,the Booker Prize. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: We Took the Streets Miguel Melendez, 2005 An insider's view of the idealism, anger and vitality of the much-maligned group known as the Young Lords as they rose to become the most respected and powerful voice of Latin American empowerment in the US. From their emergence in the 60's to their fracture in 1972, this is the story of how one group took on the establishment - and won. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: V.S. Naipaul Purabi Panwar, 2003 This Volume Brings Together Some Of The Most Recent Revaluations Of The Multifaceted Oeuvre Of V.S. Naipaul, Comprising His Novels, Short Stories, Travel Writing, Historical Accounts, And Varied Essays. Focussed On The Author'S Creative Anxieties And Strategies As Much As On His Provocative Discourses On Diverse Nations, Cultures, Histories And Communities Across The Globe, It Closely Critiques Most Of His Major Texts. The Anthology Also Explores The Extent Of Fixities And Ambivalences In Naipaul'S Much Talked About Eurocentrism, His Insights Into And Distortions Of The Past, And His Assimilations/Appropriations Through The Deployment Of The Telling Detail And The Brilliant Prose. At Once Exciting And Instructive, The Volume Richly Investigates The Author'S Ceaseless Endeavour To Come To Terms With The Modern Man'S Predicament In Today'S Highly Tangled Scenario. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: V. S. Naipaul Landeg White, 1975 |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: V. S. Naipaul's Journeys Sanjay Krishnan, 2020-01-21 Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul's work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul's life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have restricted discussions of his writing. |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Letters Between a Father and Son V.S. Naipaul, 2012-03-22 In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years, letters passed back and forth between Naipaul and his family – particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings. The result is a fascinating chronicle of Naipaul’s time at university; the love of writing that he shared with his father and their mutual nurturing of literary ambition; the triumphs and depressions of Oxford life; and the travails of his family back at home. Letters Between a Father and Son is an engrossing collection continuing into the early years of V. S. Naipaul’s literary career, touching time and again on the craft of writing, and revealing the relationships and experiences that formed and influenced one of the greatest and most enigmatic literary figures of our age. ‘Rare and precious . . . if any modern writer was going to breathe a last gasp into the epistolary tradition, it was always likely to be V. S. Naipaul’ New Statesman |
| miguel street by vs naipaul: Miguel Street Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 2004 |
Cultural Hybridity and Ambivalent Identity in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel …
Abstract: This paper examines V.S. Naipaul's novel Miguel Street as a reflection of the broader context of post-colonial Trinidad and the challenges faced by its inhabitants. The characters' …
V.S. NAIPAUL - cardozohigh.com
3 Jun 2016 · V.S. NAIPAUL Miguel Street V. S. Naipaul was born in Trini dad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to writ e, and since then he …
Elitist versus Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Naipaul's Miguel Street
this essay contends that Naipaul adopts a rather unique narrative technique of doubling in Miguel Street to depict two kinds of cosmopolitanism: ver- nacular versus elitist.
Themes Prevalent In The Novels Of V.S. Naipaul - The Criterion
Trinidad is depicted through a galaxy of characters during World War Two in The Miguel Street, a tribute to Naipaul’s childhood home. This is an image that also appears in the story “A Flag on …
Miguel Street: Deep Tragedy in the Heart of Overstated Humor
This paper aims to elucidate and explore the rate of tragedy which is overcome to comic matter which has been totally overstated in the mentioned novel written by V. S. Naipaul, even …
Alienation and Rootlessness in the Novels of V.S. Naipaul - IJELLH
V. S. Naipaul, the mouthpiece of displacement and rootlessness is one of the most significant contemporary English Novelists. Of Indian descent, born in Trinidad, and educated in England, …
Calypso allusions in Naipaul's Miguel Street - University of …
In marked contrast, Naipaul's first book' Miguel Street (1959), a collection of interlocking short stories about the residents of a street in one of the poorer parts of Port of Spain . 10 . appears to …
The vulnerability of characters in Miguel Street of V.S. Naipaul: A …
The inhabitants of the Miguel Street form the ‘rubbish heap’ of the West Indian society. Naipaul with his sarcastic tone in all the stories seems to have denounced the culture, habits, and values of …
The Tragedy of V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street - ResearchGate
Miguel Street (1959) is one of Naipaul’s outstanding novels and is a semi-autobiographical novel set in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The locations in the novel are of crucial...
The Tragedy on Females in V. S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street
The tragic features of V. S. Naipaul’s short story collection Miguel Street are more typical in the female characters. This paper attempts to analyze the typical female tragic characters in the book.
THE NOVELS OF V. S. NAIPAUL - JSTOR
The least impressive of Naipaul's five novels are, without doubt, Miguel Street and The Suffrage of Elvira. Both gain their interest almost solely from quaint dialogue and the eccentricity of the …
Autobiography in the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul - JSTOR
His first publishable book, Miguel Street (written in 1954), as he vividly describes in "Prologue to an Autobiography," is based on wartime neighbors of Naipaul's family in Port of Spain.
Disruptions of Hybrid Culture in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street
Miguel Street stands as one of V.S. Naipaul’s earliest literary works. It says the struggle for identity in a post-colonial context and comprising seventeen distinct stories centered around the lives of …
Miguel Street By Vs Naipaul - tempsite.gov.ie
Miguel Street Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul,1959 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' …
Alienation and Quest for Identity in V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr ...
An underlying philosophy that V. S. Naipaul brings to focus in A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men and Miguel Street, the three works this paper examines.
Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira
The origins of Miguel Street (1959), a volume of linked short stories, can be found in ‘Prologue to an Autobiography’ (1982) where Naipaul recalls thirty years earlier, in a room of the BBC in London, …
V. S. Naipaul's Fiction in Quest of the Enemy, by Anthony Boxill.
This easily read book is an interesting analysis of ten of V.S. Naipaul's novels starting with Miguel Street (1959) and ending with A Bend in the River (1979). In his introduc-tory chapter, Boxill …
Representation of Women in V. S. Naipaul's Early Novels: A …
In Naipaul’s early novels, The Mystic Masseur (1957), Miguel Street (1959), A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) and A Bend in the River (1979) women characters hardly have an existence independent...
The Colonial State Apparatus of the School: Development ... - JSTOR
In his autobiographical novel Miguel Street, V.S. Naipaul presents a microcosm of the colonial world through the extended character-profiles of individuals populating one of the many streets of Port …
TWO BOOKS ON V. S. NAIPAUL: AN ESSAY-REVIEW - JSTOR
The chapter on Miguel Street (pp. 25-27) is about the prisonhouse of society and the characters' attempts to escape it; the one on The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira (pp. 28-34) …
Cultural Hybridity and Ambivalent Identity in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street
Abstract: This paper examines V.S. Naipaul's novel Miguel Street as a reflection of the broader context of post-colonial Trinidad and the challenges faced by its inhabitants. The characters' identities are shaped by the legacy of British colonial rule and the …
V.S. NAIPAUL - cardozohigh.com
3 Jun 2016 · V.S. NAIPAUL Miguel Street V. S. Naipaul was born in Trini dad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to writ e, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than
Elitist versus Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Naipaul's Miguel Street
this essay contends that Naipaul adopts a rather unique narrative technique of doubling in Miguel Street to depict two kinds of cosmopolitanism: ver- nacular versus elitist.
Themes Prevalent In The Novels Of V.S. Naipaul - The Criterion
Trinidad is depicted through a galaxy of characters during World War Two in The Miguel Street, a tribute to Naipaul’s childhood home. This is an image that also appears in the story “A Flag on the Island,” where the reader can identify the
Miguel Street: Deep Tragedy in the Heart of Overstated Humor
This paper aims to elucidate and explore the rate of tragedy which is overcome to comic matter which has been totally overstated in the mentioned novel written by V. S. Naipaul, even thoughthe tragedy does not dominate directly because Naipaul also offers considerable humor.
Alienation and Rootlessness in the Novels of V.S. Naipaul - IJELLH
V. S. Naipaul, the mouthpiece of displacement and rootlessness is one of the most significant contemporary English Novelists. Of Indian descent, born in Trinidad, and educated in England, Naipaul has been placed as a rootless nomad in the cultural world, always on a …
Calypso allusions in Naipaul's Miguel Street - University of …
In marked contrast, Naipaul's first book' Miguel Street (1959), a collection of interlocking short stories about the residents of a street in one of the poorer parts of Port of Spain . 10 . appears to show genuine concern for the ordinary West Indian. Here the black man is not
The vulnerability of characters in Miguel Street of V.S. Naipaul: A …
The inhabitants of the Miguel Street form the ‘rubbish heap’ of the West Indian society. Naipaul with his sarcastic tone in all the stories seems to have denounced the culture, habits, and values of West Indian Society.
The Tragedy of V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street - ResearchGate
Miguel Street (1959) is one of Naipaul’s outstanding novels and is a semi-autobiographical novel set in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The locations in the novel are of crucial...
The Tragedy on Females in V. S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street
The tragic features of V. S. Naipaul’s short story collection Miguel Street are more typical in the female characters. This paper attempts to analyze the typical female tragic characters in the book.
THE NOVELS OF V. S. NAIPAUL - JSTOR
The least impressive of Naipaul's five novels are, without doubt, Miguel Street and The Suffrage of Elvira. Both gain their interest almost solely from quaint dialogue and the eccentricity of the characters inhabiting them, and Miguel Street especially is heavily derivative of Steinbeck's Cannery Row. The book consists of short
Autobiography in the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul - JSTOR
His first publishable book, Miguel Street (written in 1954), as he vividly describes in "Prologue to an Autobiography," is based on wartime neighbors of Naipaul's family in Port of Spain.
Disruptions of Hybrid Culture in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street
Miguel Street stands as one of V.S. Naipaul’s earliest literary works. It says the struggle for identity in a post-colonial context and comprising seventeen distinct stories centered around the lives of various characters residing on a single street in the Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Miguel Street By Vs Naipaul - tempsite.gov.ie
Miguel Street Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul,1959 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)
Alienation and Quest for Identity in V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr ...
An underlying philosophy that V. S. Naipaul brings to focus in A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men and Miguel Street, the three works this paper examines.
Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira
The origins of Miguel Street (1959), a volume of linked short stories, can be found in ‘Prologue to an Autobiography’ (1982) where Naipaul recalls thirty years earlier, in a room of the BBC in London, writing the first sentence of ‘Bogart’ from his memories of Trinidad.
V. S. Naipaul's Fiction in Quest of the Enemy, by Anthony Boxill.
This easily read book is an interesting analysis of ten of V.S. Naipaul's novels starting with Miguel Street (1959) and ending with A Bend in the River (1979). In his introduc-tory chapter, Boxill identifies the quest of the enemy as a central theme in V.S. Naipaul's works and uses this as the viewpoint from which to discuss the novels.
Representation of Women in V. S. Naipaul's Early Novels: A …
In Naipaul’s early novels, The Mystic Masseur (1957), Miguel Street (1959), A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) and A Bend in the River (1979) women characters hardly have an existence independent...
The Colonial State Apparatus of the School: Development
In his autobiographical novel Miguel Street, V.S. Naipaul presents a microcosm of the colonial world through the extended character-profiles of individuals populating one of the many streets of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
TWO BOOKS ON V. S. NAIPAUL: AN ESSAY-REVIEW - JSTOR
The chapter on Miguel Street (pp. 25-27) is about the prisonhouse of society and the characters' attempts to escape it; the one on The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira (pp. 28-34) explores "the same theme . . . that the
