The Mimic Men
€ 15,00
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780330522922 |
|---|---|
| Autores | V.S. Naipaul |
| Editora | Pan Macmillan |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 288 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,206 |
| Data de Publicação | 07/10/2011 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 14,15 |
| Imposto | € 0,85 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 15,00 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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