The Mimic MenBy: V. S. Naipaul With a preface by the author. V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial mans experience in the post colonial world. Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty year old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. Now in exile from his native country, he has