The Mimic Men - Softcover
Just 40, Ralph Singh - a disgraced colonial minister exiled from Isabella, the Caribbean island of his birth - writes his autobiography in a genteel hotel in a run-down London suburb. The author also wrote "The Mystic Masseur", "A House for Mr Biswas" and "The Middle Passage".
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"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)
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A profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man’s experience in the post-colonial world.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0140029400
- ISBN 13 9780140029406
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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