Miguel Street is a collection of linked short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago.
Naipaul also draws on wider Trinidadian culture, referring to cricket and quoting a number of lyrics by black calypso singers.
As the various characters reappear in different stories, which all share the same boy narrator, the book can be seen as a type of novel.
[4] Deutsch published Miguel Street after Naipaul's first two novels, The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira, which appeared in 1957 and 1958 respectively.
The New York Times said about Miguel Street, "The sketches are written lightly, so that tragedy is understated and comedy is overstated, yet the ring of truth always prevails.