Arctic Summer

Damon Galgut

Aleph Book Company

368 pages, Rs 595

EM Forster, one of the most iconic writers of our time, lived when the British Empire was at its height. His last and greatest novel, A Passage To India, was written over a period of eleven years starting in 1913. For nine of those years he was stuck, unable to move the work forward. Behind the writing of this novel lies a powerful personal story of love, travel and friendship, which Galgut brings to life for the first time in Arctic Summer. Meticulously researched and vividly imagined, the novel conjures up the sensitive, contradictory figure of Forster as he struggles to write his masterpiece.