E.M. Forster - A Passage to India

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Edited with an introduction and notes by Oliver Stallybrass.

A mysterious incident at the Marabar caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and the presumed guilt of charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, are at the centre of Forster’s magnificent novel of India during the Raj.
Topical now, as in 1924, in its evocation of the dangers and ambivalences inherent in colonialism, as Forster said, it is ‘about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar caves …’