Miguel Street
About This Novel
Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul became famous for his work and won the Somerset Maugham Literature Award; life is so desperate, but everyone lives happily. There are a group of little people with temperament and hope living on Miguel Street. They are all as ordinary as salt and as precious as salt! This book is carefully woven from 17 parallel short stories. Each story is relatively independent, but the novels are interrelated and interspersed with each other, forming a structure that interacts with each other in both vertical and horizontal dimensions. They happily lived an unchanged life. Life is so desperate, but everyone lives happily!
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Official(3)Scraped 7d ago
With all our enthusiasm, we warmly embrace this great era of ours.
Can't go back to the past
Everyone has memories of the past, and the author's writing makes the people and things in these memories vivid.
He took a job on a ship and went to British Guiana. From there he disembarked and went inland, where he worked as a cowboy in Rupununi, smuggling goods (he didn't say what) into Brazil, and he also brought some young Brazilian women to Georgetown. He opened the best liquor store there and was doing prosperously. However, the policeman who took his bribe betrayed his promise and arrested him.
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Official(3)Scraped 7d ago
With all our enthusiasm, we warmly embrace this great era of ours.
Can't go back to the past
Everyone has memories of the past, and the author's writing makes the people and things in these memories vivid.
He took a job on a ship and went to British Guiana. From there he disembarked and went inland, where he worked as a cowboy in Rupununi, smuggling goods (he didn't say what) into Brazil, and he also brought some young Brazilian women to Georgetown. He opened the best liquor store there and was doing prosperously. However, the policeman who took his bribe betrayed his promise and arrested him.
