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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: The Mimic Men
• Author: V S Naipaul
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780375707179
• ISBN: 0375707174
• ID: 11406513
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 231 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 133 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: August 2001

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