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A 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.
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- Title The Mimic Men
- Author V. S. Naipaul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2001-08-14
- ISBN 9780375707179 / 0375707174
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.22 x 0.68 in (20.37 x 13.26 x 1.73 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Caribbean Area
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00052753
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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