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The Mimic Men (Vintage International (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Mimic MenA 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...
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: 31 August 2001
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780375707179 ISBN 10: 0375707174
- Sales rank: 297,414
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Full description for The Mimic Men
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.
