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 w
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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