In one work by this author, an Indian student goes to London to study and publishes a short-story collection. That character, Willie, later spends eighteen years in East Africa before traveling to Berlin in this author's novel Half a Life. Another work by this author sees an East African official, Bobby, go on a road trip with his colleague's wife Linda amidst increasing violence as the President takes power. This author of In a Free State also wrote a novel in which Salim starts a business and is arrested for trading in ivory, and another in which the title character is born with six fingers 
In one work by this author, an Indian student goes to London to study and publishes a short-story collection. That character, Willie, later spends eighteen years in East Africa before traveling to Berlin in this author's novel Half a Life. Another work by this author sees an East African official, Bobby, go on a road trip with his colleague's wife Linda amidst increasing violence as the President takes power. This author of In a Free State also wrote a novel in which Salim starts a business and is arrested for trading in ivory, and another in which the title character is born with six fingers and cursed to "eat up his mother and father"; that figure repeatedly tries to acquire the title location after being part of the decaying Tulsi household. FTP, name this Trinidadian author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas
In one work by this author, an Indian student goes to London to study and publishes a short-story collection.
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