British Novel Week 4

The book of the week is Passage to India by E.M. Forster. This was the author's first book in over a decade and his last book. Forster actually lived in India which makes the story more believable to me. It is a very sad story about the clash of two Cultures. The British have colonized India and brought with them their own English value system. Rather than understand the Indian people, they have decided to live separate and apart from them. The people of India and the people of Britain have different cultures, religions and ideologies. An accusation and trial pit the English against the Indians. The few characters who try to bridge the gap between East and West are practically ostracized. No one really wins. I did find this book so much easier to read than the previous books that utilized the stream-of-consciousness technique.