{"product_id":"the-mimic-men-a-novel-0375707174","title":"The Mimic Men: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0375707174\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Naipaul, V. S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial mans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51824479863072,"sku":"NEW0375707174","price":15.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61wKJlFKSPL.jpg?v=1781212775","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-mimic-men-a-novel-0375707174","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}