The Mimic Men
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- Item Code: 48874
- Author: V. S. Naipaul
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan Books
- Edition: 1st
- Isbn : 9780330522922
- 13 EAN: 9780330522922
With a preface by the author.
V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the post-colonial world.
Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. Now in exile from his native country, he has taken up residence at a quaint hotel in a London suburb, where he is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the cultural paradoxes and tainted fantasies of his colonial childhood and later life: his attempts to fit in at school, his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman. But it is the return to Isabella and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governing nation - every kind of racial fantasy taking wing - that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.
'A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist' John Updike, New Yorker
| Book specification | |
|---|---|
| Author | V. S. Naipaul |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan Books |
| Edition | 1st |
| Isbn | 9780330522922 |
| 13 EAN | 9780330522922 |
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