50 Years of Books to Remember: Continental Drift: Traveling the globe on wings of imagination
Annotation:Told with sensitivity and honesty by a native of Southern Rhodesia. (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
Annotation:A magnificent monologue which examines the conscience of modern man. (France)
Annotation:Colorful novel that fully captures the flavor of West Indian life. (Trinidad)
Annotation:An epic tale intertwining half a century of South American history with a family's material and spiritual crises. (Chile)
Annotation:Set against the backdrop of 20th-century India, a young man recounts the epic tale of his bizarre family. (India and Great Britain)
Annotation:The tragicomic history of a mythical town. (Colombia)
Annotation:A thought-provoking novel of a proper English butler who must come to terms with his life as he reviews his personal attachments and years of service. (Great Britain)
Annotation:Symbolic and strange novel depicting life reduced to the absurd in prewar Germany. (Germany)
Annotation:Philosophical, social, and political themes intertwine in this tale of four people trying to exist in a world in which human choices are limited. (Italy)
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A representative selection from over 1500 titles on annual lists of Books to Remember from 1956 to 2005. Compiled by Francie Einenkel and Susan Chute, Librarians, The New York Public Library.
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