{"product_id":"the-mimic-men-9780375707179","title":"The Mimic Men","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Arrival \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man's experience in a postcolonial world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"No one else ... seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375707179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.68d","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44524507529397,"sku":"9780375707179","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_817e905c-c744-4313-a85a-3e61924a212b.jpg?v=1722919777","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-mimic-men-9780375707179","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}