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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375707174
ISBN-139780375707179
eBay Product ID (ePID)1823804
Product Key Features
Book TitleMimic Men : a Novel
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicGeneral, Literary, Political, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-052753
Reviews"A Tolstoyan spirit.... The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist."John Updike, The New Yorker "Ambitious and successful." The Times (London), "A Tolstoyan spirit.... The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist." --John Updike, The New Yorker "Ambitious and successful." -- The Times (London), "A Tolstoyan spirit.... The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist."John Updike,The New Yorker "Ambitious and successful."The Times(London)
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisA profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man's experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment., From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man's experience in a postcolonial world. "No one else ... seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile." -- The New York Review of Books Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.
LC Classification NumberPR9272.9.N32M55 2001
