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The Mimic Men

The Mimic Men is a moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and has won many prizes including the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
politics
Setting
20th centurycaribbeanlondonindiaengland
Subject
politics
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 278 pages

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