Another of his novels centers on a journalist and ex-signpainter who suffers under the yoke of Mai after marrying Shama Tulsi and seeks to build the title structure.
In one work by this author, the race horse Tamango, owned by the Deschampsneufs, is ritually killed by the narrator's father and his followers, while the narrator briefly becomes a leader on the island of Isabella. IAnother of his protagonists marries the daughter of Ramlogan and becomes a politician in Britain under the name G. Ramsay Muir, though he was born Ganesh Ramsumair. This author of The Mimic Men and The Mystic Masseur set one of his novels in a part of Africa ruled by Big Man, in which Salim sets up his shop. Another of his novels centers on a journalist and ex-signpainter who suffers under the yoke of Mai after marrying Shama Tulsi and seeks to build the title structure. For 10 points, name this Trinidadian author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas.
In one work by this author, the race horse Tamango, owned by the Deschampsneufs, is ritually killed by the narrator's father and his followers, while the narrator briefly becomes a leader on the island of Isabella.
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul