{"product_id":"the-mimic-men-by-v-s-naipaul","title":"The Mimic Men, by V.S. Naipaul (used)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man’s experience in the post-colonial world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Ambitious and successful ... Extremely perceptive' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e'The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Used","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887696867586,"sku":"9780330487108","price":140.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/MimicMen.jpg?v=1714724398","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/the-mimic-men-by-v-s-naipaul","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}