This is a biased review: I am blinded by the beautiful language and awestruck by the reach of the story and its implications. Dr Aziz is quite far from a likeable character. He is thoughtless, he has a high opinion of himself and definite opinions of others. He also copes with the English authorit...
Can there ever be friendship between the colonizer and colonized? Individuals from each group? Can that trust last? Can it flourish? What happens when events put it under stress?Forster has no easy answers in this book, as he dissects British colonial rule in India, and its impact on Indians and the...
timeless classic, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India only gets better with age and re-reading, being one of those rare books that can be tolerated as a youngster and then reveals greater depth as one advances through life. Forster, a homosexual and socialist, was deeply skeptical of the British Empir...
In some ways it's hard to believe that this was published in 1924, given the prescience Forster demonstrates in relation to the future of the British Raj. Towards the end of the novel, one of the central characters, Dr Aziz, effectively predicts that Indians will throw out the British when England i...
This was the first book I was able to finish for my English class. While parts were confusing and it was not the most "action-packed" book, I enjoyed reading it to a pretty high extent. The language is very nice and the way Forster described some parts was utterly comical. I wish I didn't have to ru...
Forster was very eloquent in describing colonial India and the race relations in it, but as I'm not as eloquent as he was I can only sum up the contents of this novel in four sentences:Why can't we be friends?Why can't we be friends?Why can't we be friends?Why can't we be friends?- "Why Can't We be ...
This is the second E.M. Forester book I've read and while I think it still deserves a lot of thought even after I've finished, Forester managed to enchant me again. At a younger age, I don't think this would have been the case.This novel provides a good deal of commentary on the relationships betwe...
I also finished the classic, A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster. I enjoyed 2 of his other books - A Room with a View and Howard's End. Both of those other books seem to poke fun at English Edwardian society in a light and humorous way. This book had a much more serious tone. It takes place in India...
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