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ISBN
9780307776563
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
20-10-2010
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Auteur(s)
V. S. Naipaul
The Mimic Men
A Novel
Reeks: Vintage International
V. S. Naipaul
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€8,99
From
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.“No
one
else
…
seems
able
to
employ
prose
fiction
so
deeply
as
the
very
voice
of
exile.”
—The
New
York
Review
of
BooksBorn
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.
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