Description
| Product ID: | 9780330522922 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Mimic Men |
| Authors: | Author: V.S. Naipaul |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A profound novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. <p><b>With a preface by the author.</b><br><br><b>V. S. Naipaul's <i>The Mimic Men</i> is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man’s experience in the post-colonial world.</b><br><br> 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.<br><br>‘A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist’ John Updike, <i>New Yorker</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-10-07 |
