Notable works from Africa include Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958); from Asia, Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1955), Anita Desai’s Games at Twilight (1978), and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981); and from the Caribbean, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1985).
