{"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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62344937406851,"sku":"9780375707179","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780375707179.jpg?v=1786255295","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-mimic-men-9780375707179","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}