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V. S. Naipaul is an Indian writer from Trinidad who has written many novels that are set in the developing world. He is focused on writing about the history of areas and peoples that are usually forgotten. Naipaul also won the Nobel Prize for literature and a number of other honors. Miguel Street is his semi-autobiographical work which occurs during World War II in Port of Spain, Tobago and Trinidad. The book is set in a particular time but is not confined to strict chronological order. Instead, the book is divided into seventeen chapters which are a series of episodes in Naipaul's life, though Naipaul himself remains unnamed throughout the entire work. Miguel Street is the location of all the main characters of each episode, a street in the western part of Port of Spain. Naipaul writes from the first-person and describes his own experiences within each episode save...
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