The Mimic Men
An ambitious and successful novel...it is an extremely perceptive account of the political and cultural situation of a colonial country and of an individual who is produced by that situation...the observations and descriptions - London boarding houses and pubs, childhood dreams, the life of Isabella, Singh's first sight of snow...all these are done with great skill and Mr. Naipaul never writes without distinction and poise.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul Kt. TC (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, is a British novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian descent. He is widely considered to be one of the masters of modern English prose.[1] He has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1958), the Somerset Maugham Award (1960), the Hawthornden Prize (1964), the W. H. Smith Literary Award (1968), the Booker Prize (1971), and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature (1993). V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, the centenary year of the award.
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