num_pages: 288
description: What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel.After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness -a theme which still has powerful, dangerous realities today.
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: Penguin Books