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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."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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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)Book Description
A profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man’s experience in the post-colonial world.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0375707174
- ISBN 13 9780375707179
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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