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The Mimic Men
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 0375707174
ISBN13: 9780375707179
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Aug 14 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375707179
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Aug 14 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
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
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.
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