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A Passage to India
by: E.M. Forster

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780141441160
ISBN: 014144116X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: July 28, 2005
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 3293

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When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.

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When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.

About the Author:
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) wrote six novels - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924). Maurice , written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work (Aspects of the Novel); The Hill of Devi; two biographies; two books about Alexandria; and the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and is the author of The Romantics: A Novel and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.

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- East and West Can Never Meet?
Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies not so much in representing it but in the fact that Forster offers a way out - personal contact. There is little chance people will suddenly like Muslims, Pakistanis, gays, lesbians, Moroccans, Turkish, Kurds etc etc - there is a chance (a very slim chance, Forster would be quick to add) that an American and a Muslim, a Turk and a Kurd, an Israeli and a Palestinian can be friends. The world may not want it, the people that surround them may not want ... Read More:

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- Passage to India
E.M Forster's classic novel is a savage critique of English colonial attitudes towards the Indian 'subject race' during the British Raj. Having then visited India with his friend Syed Masood - whom this book's principle character is said to be loosely based on - Forster was well-equipped to expose the hypocrasy and racism of Anglo-India.

Tautly written and witheringly sardonic, few characters survive unscathed in this grimly pessimistic portrait of the times. So much so that it is a rather dispiriting read in 2007, when we no longer need Forster's acerbic wit to enlighten us on the arrogance and cruelty of the Empire. Sadly this makes it a rather contemporaneous, even dated read; arguably more interesting as social history than ... Read More:

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- My review on A Passage to India
A Passage to India by E.M Forster is a story about the British Commonwealth. As you know and may have learned from history, Britain ruled India for 200 years, until independence was declared in India from August 15th 1947. The novel is a historical journey when British imperalism in India was present and reflects how life was like within the raj period. Forster protrays an accurate and vivid picuture in the minds of the reader of about life in India.

The main plot of the story is about a young British girl (Adela) who wants to escape from the brutality and prejudice behaviour surrounding the British community to explore and gain authentic experience of India. He meets a well respected doctor (Dr Aziz) who is later involved in a scandal, ... Read More:

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