In a Free State and Miguel Street is dominated by the Tulsi family after marrying Shama, before finally obtaining the sought-after title abode.
One story by him is set during a civil war between the King and the President, as Bobby and Linda drive across an unnamed country. One of this author's characters is a carpenter who insists that he is "making the thing without the name".  Another of his characters has written only the line "The past is deep" of a purported great poem. In a novel by him, Raymond is an intellectual apologist for a character based on Mobutu Sese Soko, Big Man, and Salim tries to maintain a cloth shop in the title location. The title character of another work by this author of In a Free State and Miguel Street is dominated by the Tulsi family after marrying Shama, before finally obtaining the sought-after title abode. For 10 points, name this author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas, a Trinidadian novelist.
One story by him is set during a civil war between the King and the President, as Bobby and Linda drive across an unnamed country.
Sir V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul