It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. University of Johannesburg English Literary Award Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2015 "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Damon Galgut, among the finest living writers, has not only given life to a quiet enigma who suffered in love but looked at the inspiration and need that helped that enigma write six major novels. * The Times * Could well be one of the finest literary works published this year. A vivid, moving account of the man that makes you want to read all his books again. * Sunday Times * Beautifully written and utterly compelling. The portrait is beautifully nuanced, a mixture of bold, colourful strokes and delicate little flicks of the brush. * Economist * Galgut is extremely good on Forster's anxieties, his loneliness, his unworldliness. * Guardian * With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Mr Galgut has written a beautiful, and at times funny, novel that movingly captures the duality of one of Britain's most thoughtful authors. * Daily Telegraph * It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of love, race and politics, seems perfectly suited as a writer. * Daily Mail * Galgut has so seamlessly incorporated Forster's diaries, letters and novels into his narrative that it is often hard to tell which novelist is which. * Mail on Sunday * A masterly piece of fiction. * Sunday Business Post * A beautifully imagined piece, getting deep inside the mind of a major English novelist. * The Herald (Scotland) * Galgut's gifts - of phrasing, of structure, of perception - are on faultless form in these pages. Preoccupied by varieties of sadness - but is so crisply written, with a deceptive simplicity and directness, that it feels full of affirmations - Summer picks * Guardian * How apt that Arctic Summer, a chronicle or a writer's longest journey to complete his masterpiece, also happens to be Galgut's finest book to date.
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