text: In a collection of stories by this man, an elderly Englishman destroys a Spanish magazine, drawing the ire of a Lebanese businessman, and the "compound wife" Linda and the homosexual administrator Bobby embark on a road trip across an African country.
full_question: In a collection of stories by this man, an elderly Englishman destroys a Spanish magazine, drawing the ire of a Lebanese businessman, and the "compound wife" Linda and the homosexual administrator Bobby embark on a road trip across an African country. This author wrote a novel in which the schoolteacher Father Huisams is brutally murdered and the foreigner Yvette has an affair with Salim, who worries about a dictator called the Big Man. In another novel by this man, the title character develops permanent stomach problems after eating seven overripe bananas at one of his many jobs, none of which earn him enough money to keep his own dwelling. For 10 points, name this author of In A Free State, A Bend in the River, and A House for Mr. Biswas, a Trinidadian.
first_sentence: In a collection of stories by this man, an elderly Englishman destroys a Spanish magazine, drawing the ire of a Lebanese businessman, and the "compound wife" Linda and the homosexual administrator Bobby embark on a road trip across an African country.
raw_answer: Vidiadhar Surajprasad [V.S.] Naipaul