A Passage to India

A cave. A whisper. A accusation that divided an empire.

E.M. Forster's greatest novel is not about love or adventure—it is about the chasm between two peoples who cannot hear each other, no matter how loudly they shout.

In the Indian city of Chandrapore, during the twilight of the British Raj, Dr. Aziz, a young Muslim physician, befriends two Englishwomen: the elderly Mrs. Moore and the idealistic Miss Adela Quested. Eager to show them the real India, Aziz arranges an expedition to the mysterious Marabar Caves. But inside the caves, something happens—or does not happen. Adela emerges convinced that Aziz has assaulted her. What follows is a trial that tears apart the fragile friendship between Aziz and his English ally, Cyril Fielding, and exposes the ugly underbelly of colonial rule: the assumption that no Indian can be trusted, and no English person can be wrong.

This is Forster at his most searing and ambiguous: a novel about friendship, race, and the limits of understanding between people who live in different worlds. A Passage to India ends with a question that still haunts us: Can those who have been divided by empire ever truly be friends?

• Widely considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century

• Explores colonialism, racism, friendship, and the impossibility of perfect understanding

• Adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1984

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About the Author

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, essayist, and librettist, best known for his novels exploring class, hypocrisy, and the struggle for human connection in Edwardian England and beyond. His major works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Forster was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. After 1924, he published no further novels, devoting himself instead to criticism and biography, including the posthumously published Maurice (1971), a groundbreaking novel about homosexual love written in 1913–14. Forster was a humanist, a secular thinker, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1969.