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Author(s): Naipaul, V.S.
Reader(s): Dastor, Sam
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Fiction
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: NA0285
Barcode: 9781781980811
Release Date: 01/2017
NAIPAUL, V.S.: Mimic Men (The) (Unabridged)
Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism. Ralph’s constant estrangement sees him ever attempting to fit into various communities, only to find home in more transient spaces. Born on the tropical island of Isabella, he is one of West India’s many ‘Mimic Men’.
Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul’s sixth novel is a brutal and perceptive commentary on the postcolonial condition of the colonial man.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Naipaul, V.S. - Author
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
|  | 1 | The Mimic Men | 09:45 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | There are many of us around living modestly… | 12:15 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | The priest hallowed the baby with his saliva… | 11:51 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | 2: How right our aryan ancestors were… | 12:59 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | Will I be believed if I say that on four successive… | 11:38 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | Everyone reduced, reciprocally, to a succession… | 11:31 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | 3: In that period of my life which was to follow… | 11:58 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | So the legitimate desire for succession… | 11:04 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | 4: In the active period of my life… | 11:14 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | But how could I resist her quick delight? | 12:49 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | I have spoken of the mood of celebration… | 11:30 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | 5: The sanctions my mother had invoked… | 12:43 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | A man, passionate for security, works and saves… | 10:39 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | So we were set apart. And a little above. | 11:28 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | What makes a marriage? What makes a house…? | 11:04 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | I should have slapped her on that mouth… | 09:00 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | 6: It only remained now for Sandra to leave. | 10:49 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | 7: My first instinct was towards the writing… | 02:01 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 7 | 2–1: On Isabella when I was a child… | 09:11 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 8 | It was one of a series of Missionary Martyrs… | 08:31 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | For Cecil childhood was the great time. | 09:16 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | 'Singh, does this certificate belong to you?' | 08:41 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | The last book he had been reading… | 08:50 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | 2: Cecil sometimes came home with me… | 10:27 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | But there was an awkwardness. My sisters and I… | 11:31 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | The arc of the cork floats steadily contracted. | 12:48 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 7 | The women liked the running shorts, the exposed… | 09:37 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | 3: My father became the possessor… | 09:00 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | The sight of the straight empty road… | 10:43 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | Success is success; once it occurs it explains itself. | 11:27 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | He got his laughs and stared mischievously at me. | 10:18 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | 'I am not going to touch Isabella Rum…' | 10:55 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | He permitted himself no levity… | 08:39 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 7 | 4: I was relieved when the war came… | 09:38 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | I had been able at certain moments… | 09:00 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | The tiny room was suddenly alive. | 08:55 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | 5: The house of my mother's family was solid. | 12:38 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | He called this Negro Cecil. | 10:39 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | Poor Gurudeva! The tears were tears… | 09:35 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | 6: Just after the end of the war Cecil's father died. | 12:02 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 7 | 'Good; you know them. But it isn't the same.' | 11:03 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | One journey had to be made before I left. | 10:24 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | 7: I wished then to go back as whole as I had come. | 01:46 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | 3–1: As I write, my own view of my actions alters. | 11:23 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | My mood might explain the excitement I felt… | 11:01 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | 2: It has happened in twenty places… | 09:32 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | I couldn't be sure where Browne stood in this. | 08:32 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 7 | 3: The election was at hand. | 10:44 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 8 | So the Roman house died a second time. | 10:26 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | 4: The child, driving with his grandfather… | 07:55 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | His speeches altered, though to the public… | 07:14 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | 5: So we brought drama of a sort to the island. | 09:29 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 4 | So there we were. Another message… | 08:27 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 5 | 6: Relief: I was astonished by the mood… | 09:51 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 6 | The taxi-driver was not devious. | 09:22 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 7 | 'Naturally. I will tell you something else about him.' | 08:10 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 8 | 7: It was time to leave. But there was no need… | 14:07 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 9
| | 1 | 8: My arrival was quiet. I was not expected. | 10:52 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 2 | 9: I thought when I began this book… | 12:01 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
| | 3 | We have our incidents. But we also have… | 11:53 |
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 10:12:51
Sam Dastor trained at RADA. His early theatrical experience includes a spell at the National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier. In the West End he appeared as Ariel to Paul Scofield’s Prospero. For the RSC he performed in Timon of Athens, Tales from Ovid and a world tour of A Servant to Two Masters. His television appearances include I, Claudius, Yes Minister, Fortunes of War and Spooks. He has appeared in the films Made, Jinnah and Such A Long Journey, recorded over 1,000 broadcasts for the BBC, and read many audiobooks.
