A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world.
Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to...
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“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else....
In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel — his first — V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur,...
Потомок браминов, выходец из Тринидада, рыцарь Британской империи и Нобелевский лауреат (2001) предпринимает в 1964 году отчаянную попытку...
Карибское путешествие B.C. Найпола, полное юмора и страсти, не только дает внутреннее видение повседневной жизни аборигенов одного из...
Опубликовано в журнале «Сельская молодежь», Москва,...
Esta novela cuenta la historia de Ganesh Ramsumair, sanador y místico, desde sus humildes orígenes hasta que obtiene la fama y el reconocimiento. Sus primeros días en el colegio. Su intento de convertirse en profesor. Su boda con...
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Winner of 1971 Booker Prize
«V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times
«A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced...