num_pages: 362
description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Britain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, at the height of the Indian independence movement. Centering on an ambiguous incident between a young Englishwoman of uncertain stability and an Indian doctor eager to know his conquerors better, Forster’s book explores, with unexampled profundity, both the historical chasm between races and the eternal one between individuals struggling to ease their isolation and make sense of their humanity.
language: English
title: A Passage to India
titlecomplete: A Passage to India
characters: Mrs. Turton, Maj. Callendar, Ralph Moore, Dr. Panna Lal, Amritrao, Mr. Turton, Professor Maryan Godbole, Mrs. Moore, Nawab Bahadur, Stella Moore, Adela Quested, Mahmoud Ali, Dr. Aziz, Mr. McBryde, Miss Derek, Ronny Heaslop, Cyril Fielding, Hamidullah
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, India, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 78484
places: India, Chandrapore 
awards: awardedAt: -1451664000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -1420041600000
name: Prix Femina - Vie Heureuse
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich