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The Mystic Masseur, V. S. Naipaul's first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and struggling masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE -- a journey equally memorable for its hilarity as its bewildering success. An unforgettable cast of characters witness this meteoric ascent: Ganesh's father-in-law, Ramlogan, whose shop gave the impression that 'every morning someone went over everything in it -- scales, Ramlogan, and all -- with a greased rag'; his aunt, the Great Belcher, with her troubling wind; his wife Leela, and her fondness for putting a punctuation mark after every word. Soon, Ganesh's small hut is filled with books (1,500, as his wife will attest), and his trousers and shirt disappear to be replaced by more suitable attire for a proper mystic. As 'The Woman Who Couldn't Eat' and 'Lover Boy', the man who fell in love with his bicycle, line up to be cured, it looks like the mystic masseur is surely destined for greatness. In one of the author's finest comic creations we see the immense sensitivity, humour and endlessly inventive imagination that have become the hallmarks of V. S. Naipaul's genius.
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Ambitious and successful . . . Extremely perceptive. (The Times)
The sweep of Naipaul’s imagination, the fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today. (Elizabeth Hardwick New York Times Book Review)
A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist. (John Updike New Yorker)
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The sweep of Naipaul’s imagination, the fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today. (Elizabeth Hardwick New York Times Book Review)
A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist. (John Updike New Yorker)
A profound novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. With a preface by the author.V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial mans experience in the post-colonial world. Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. Now in exile from his native country, he has taken up residence at a quaint hotel in a London suburb, where he is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the cultural paradoxes and tainted fantasies of his colonial childhood and later life: his attempts to fit in at school, his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman. But it is the return to Isabella and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governing nation every kind of racial fantasy taking wing that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist John Updike, New Yorker A profound novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780330522922
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