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Miguel Street by Naipaul, V SISBN 9780330523004 Publisher: Picador 2011 179 pages Soft cover Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy. We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build `the wild thing without a name', to Man man, who goes from running for

identity and interpretation are central themes in this book

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a political and literary friend from her Cape Town days

the house frequently goes dark early in the evening and can stay that way until the next day

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Foreign Soil is a collection of short fiction by Maxine Beneba Clarke published in 2014 by Hachette

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and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm

both of which changed historical storytelling

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Pages: 501

This original contribution to South African urban history draws on comparative material from other colonial port towns and on relevant studies of the Victorian city

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