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The Mimic Men

Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback

The Mimic Men

Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback
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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 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

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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 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

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780330522922
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0330522922
Kategori: London, Greater London
Udg. Dato: 7 okt 2011
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 130mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 7 okt 2011
Forfatter(e): V.S. Naipaul
Forfatter(e) V.S. Naipaul

Kategori London, Greater London

ISBN-13 9780330522922

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 130mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 7 okt 2011

Oplagsdato 7 okt 2011

Forlag Pan Macmillan

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