Overview of The Mimic Men Book

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist John Updike, New Yorker 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. 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

• Book Type :

Contemporary Fiction

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

0330522922

• The Mimic Men Published On :

1 Apr 2011

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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