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Mimic Men
V. S. Naipaul
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Description for Mimic Men
Paperback. A profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the post-colonial world. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330522922
SKU
V9780330522922
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About V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and ... Read more
Reviews for Mimic Men
A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.
John Updike
New Yorker
The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today.
Elizabeth Hardwick
New York Times Book Review
Ambitious and successful . . . Extremely perceptive. ... Read more
John Updike
New Yorker
The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today.
Elizabeth Hardwick
New York Times Book Review
Ambitious and successful . . . Extremely perceptive. ... Read more