E. M. Forster 
A Passage To India 

A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.

“We may hate one another, but we hate you most… Yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea.” on that fateful day, when Dr. Aziz took Mrs. Moore and Miss adela quest to the famous marabar caves, he had no idea that his whole life was about to turn upside down. All Aziz had done was kindly offer to show the ‘real’ India to the two englishwomen who had newly arrived in his country. But on the day of the excursion, upon returning from the caves, he was slapped with the accusation of a sexual assault. What happens when Aziz is brought to Court? Does the man get justice? Or has his race earmarked him for prison? Set in the fictional town of Chandernagore, in the pre-Independence era of India, a passage to India portrays colonialism, racial prejudice, and the dynamics of Anglo-Indian relations with striking realism.

Time magazine included the novel in its ‚All Time 100 Novels‘ list.

Über den Autor

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908),  Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years.