The Mimic Men
07 October 2011
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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 man’s 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...
Details
07 October 2011
288 pages
9780330522922
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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