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...
If the empire crumbled down quietly in [b:Troubles|256279|Troubles|J.G. Farrell|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320553126s/256279.jpg|1391244], british India shouted their indignation loudly. Canon blazed, bullets whizzed past, the stink ruled and at the periphery the natives picknicked and watched th...
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...
Samar ist ein junger indischer Student am Ende des vergangenen Jahrtausends. Er ist in die heilige Stadt Benares gekommen um den Antritt einer Beamtenstelle in irgendeiner Provinz noch ein wenig hinauszuzögern. Hier trifft er Miss West, eine Engländerin und ihre Freunde, eine schillernde Truppe von...
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...
Yet another book that I liked but didn't love. There were times when I found it hard to go back to - there was never, for me, any drive to see what happened next.The book takes a curiously meandering approach to the English under siege in Krishnapur. Maybe that's what a siege is like - long days of ...
fairly enjoyable overall and the period details are particularly fascinating. or maybe i just have a thing for the specific era on display. unfortunately something left me cold about this novel. perhaps it was the lack of old-fashioned adventure in what was a tale of a very bloody and very lengthy s...
This book is an interesting mix of a lot of stuff. Personal reflections, history, politics, philosophy, political philosophy. To my mind this was both a strength and a weakness. It's a strength in that it definitely made the book more interesting than a simple introduction to Buddhism. I particu...
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