{"product_id":"the-mimic-men-v-s-naipaul-9780375707179","title":"The Mimic Men","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man's experience in a postcolonial world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"No one else ... seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.\" -The New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"As New (w\/Marks)","offer_id":46144477102323,"sku":"2770002396118","price":10.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780375707179.jpg?v=1725012927","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-mimic-men-v-s-naipaul-9780375707179","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}