Aside from writing Magic Seeds, this author created a character whose romantic advances are mistaken for a marriage proposal by Shama.
This author wrote about the son of a brahmin-untouchable couple named Willie Somerset Chandran in two works.  In another novel, a president nicknamed The Big Man forces a Muslim shopkeeper named Salim to distribute a book of thoughts titled Maximes. Aside from writing Magic Seeds, this author created a character whose romantic advances are mistaken for a marriage proposal by Shama. That character was born with an extra finger and is obsessed with the notion of building the title structure. For 10 points, name this Trinidadian author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas.
This author wrote about the son of a brahmin-untouchable couple named Willie Somerset Chandran in two works.  
Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajsprad) Naipaul