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“Having once missed the power and wisdom of "A Passage to India", I've come to see it as the summit of Forster's career, the writer's final attempt to leap from life into light, to "ravish the unknown". But this isn't an optimistic novel. Even as British pretensions wilt, red-faced, in the heat of the Gangetic plains, so too do friendship and the possibility of understanding one another. Justice, empathy, "personal relations" (that old Forster preoccupation, always fraught) -- they're unravelled for inspection in light of the gripping fear that they're impotent, impossible, imaginary. It's an exquisitely-wrought novel, full of prophecy and insight.”
Frabjous Day wrote this review Thursday, February 2, 2012.
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