{"product_id":"a-passage-to-india-e-m-forster-9791043133350","title":"A Passage to India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe setting of A Passage to India is the British Raj, at a time of racial tension heightened by the burgeoning Indian independence movement. Adela Quested, a young British subject, is visiting India to decide whether to marry a suitor who works there as a city magistrate. During her visit, a local physician, \u003cstrong\u003eAziz\u003c\/strong\u003e, is accused of assaulting her. His trial brings tensions between the British rulers and their Indian subjects to a head.The novel is a complex exploration of colonialism, written at a time when the popular portrayal of the Indian continent was of mystery and savagery. \u003cstrong\u003eForster\u003c\/strong\u003e humanized the Indian people for his at-home British audience, highlighting the damage that colonialism caused not just to interpersonal relationships, but to society at large. On the other hand, some modern scholars view the failure of the human relationships in the book as suggesting a fundamental \"otherness\" between the two cultures: a gulf across which the disparate cultures can only see each other's shadows. In any case, the novel generated-and continues to generate-an abundant amount of critical analysis.A Passage to India is the last novel \u003cstrong\u003eForster\u003c\/strong\u003e published in his lifetime, and it frequently appears in \"best-of\" lists of literature: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Modern Library\u003c\/strong\u003e selected it as one of its \u003cstrong\u003e100\u003c\/strong\u003e great works of the 20th century, Time magazine included it in its \"\u003cstrong\u003eAll Time\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e100\u003c\/strong\u003e Novels\" list, and it won the \u003cstrong\u003e1924\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJames Tait Black Memorial Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e for fiction.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe setting of A Passage to India is the British Raj, at a time of racial tension heightened by the burgeoning Indian independence movement. Adela Quested, a young British subject, is visiting India to decide whether to marry a suitor who works there as a city magistrate. During her visit, a local physician, \u003cstrong\u003eAziz\u003c\/strong\u003e, is accused of assaulting her. His trial brings tensions between the British rulers and their Indian subjects to a head.The novel is a complex exploration of colonialism, written at a time when the popular portrayal of the Indian continent was of mystery and savagery. \u003cstrong\u003eForster\u003c\/strong\u003e humanized the Indian people for his at-home British audience, highlighting the damage that colonialism caused not just to interpersonal relationships, but to society at large. On the other hand, some modern scholars view the failure of the human relationships in the book as suggesting a fundamental \"otherness\" between the two cultures: a gulf across which the disparate cultures can only see each other's shadows. In any case, the novel generated-and continues to generate-an abundant amount of critical analysis.A Passage to India is the last novel \u003cstrong\u003eForster\u003c\/strong\u003e published in his lifetime, and it frequently appears in \"best-of\" lists of literature: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Modern Library\u003c\/strong\u003e selected it as one of its \u003cstrong\u003e100\u003c\/strong\u003e great works of the 20th century, Time magazine included it in its \"\u003cstrong\u003eAll Time\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e100\u003c\/strong\u003e Novels\" list, and it won the \u003cstrong\u003e1924\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJames Tait Black Memorial Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e for fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. M. 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