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Literary places in Port of Spain

6 places from Port of Spain, taken from the novels that put them there. Every one is anchored to a verbatim line from the text.

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1961
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
One man's lifelong search for a house of his own, across colonial Trinidad. The map runs from the sugar country of Caroni where Mohun Biswas is born, through the market town of Chaguanas and the family compound he marries into, to the capital, Port of Spain, and the small house in St James that is finally his.
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