The Mimic Men - Softcover

Naipaul, V. S.

3.38

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394732324 ISBN 13: 9780394732329

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1985

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Forty-year-old Ralph Singh, exiled in disgrace from his Caribbean home island, recalls, in a shoddy London boarding house, the too-large and too-fast events that proved beyond his control and destroyed his political career

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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)

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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