Customer Reviews
It was a life story - By: Ashley Farrington, 12 Apr 2005 
It was particularly a good book but sometimes it was boring. Women were abused alot in this story book. Men drank alot & tooked there frustration on there wives. Everyone pretende to be someone who they was not. Bogart pretended to be a tailor, Popo pretended to be a contractor etc. i learnt alot from hat he talked alot.In general it was a good book.
The lost men of Trinidad - By: Miss J Gore, 25 Jan 2005 Miguel st is an interesting & funny novel about a smalll community of black/asian people living in a smalll town in Trinidad. The novel consists of 9 or 10 stories focusing on the lives on the 5 or 6 men. the stories are funny because they focus on the alll the men desperately struggling to escape Trinidad. their lives are hopeless & they try every tactic to leave or some how be repected in the community. Its alll about belonging, struggling & escapism.
Women play a smalll or invisable part in this novel.
All the stories are seen through the eyes of a young narrator, who observes what it is like to be a man in Trinidad.
A light-hearted read, not hard work.
Trinidadians aren't all that illiterate - By: , 02 Sep 2004 This was an excellent book! It expreesed the lives of the men of northern Trinidad. It was hilarious yet there was a deeper meaning that most people didn't get after reading the book. My favourite character was Hat, simply because he was greatly liked by everyone on Migel Street & he gave the best advice. What i didn't lie though is that the author made Trinidadians out to be carefree people who always 'limed' & never had education in mind. This was a great literature book, though, & deserved the Nobel Prize it got. Way to go Sir Naipaul! you've done us Trinidadians proud!
Amusing and poingnant - By: Philippe Horak, 24 Nov 2003 A beautiful portrait of the inhabitants of Miguel Street located in a derelict corner of Trinidad's Capital Port of Spain. Set during World War II, the story is narrated by a precociously observant neighbourhood boy. The mood shifts from sweet melancholy to anarchical fun as we discover the lives of Popo the carpenter, Man-man staging his own crucifixion, Big Foot the bully or the lovely Mrs Hereira in thralll to her monstrous husband. An amusing & poignant book.
Utter brilliance - By: R. Knight, 22 Aug 2002 
I first read this book ten years ago, & return to it frequently for the sheer pleasure of reading it again. It is delightful in it's simplicity, smalll dramas writ large against a colourful island landscape. It is an engaging masterpiece, full of rich & diverse characters & brilliantly funny, by far my favourite Naipaul & one of the best novels I have ever read. Someone somewhere must be working on the film script of it.
