A young woman and her companion arrive in Chandrapore India. Feeling a need to see the "real" India, outside the clubs filled with other Brits of high society, they set out to visit some caves under the guidance of Dr. Aziz. While exploring an incident happens, and the young woman and Dr. Aziz are surrounded by a scandal that speaks volumes of British and Indian relations of that era.
Like every Forster book I have read, I remain unimpressed. Forster was obviously a good writer, but fails to capture me in any way. The "incident" in the book is never really described and some of the reactions afterwords by the characters remind me a bit of Rebecca by Du Maurier. Perhaps when these books were written they had a sense of shock, but to me it was all very anti-climactic.
3 Stars
A young woman and her companion arrive in Chandrapore India. Feeling a need to see the "real" India, outside the clubs filled with other Brits of high society, they set out to visit some caves under the guidance of Dr. Aziz. While exploring an incident happens, and the young woman and Dr. Aziz are surrounded by a scandal that speaks volumes of British and Indian relations of that era.
Like every Forster book I have read, I remain unimpressed. Forster was obviously a good writer, but fails to capture me in any way. The "incident" in the book is never really described and some of the reactions afterwords by the characters remind me a bit of Rebecca by Du Maurier. Perhaps when these books were written they had a sense of shock, but to me it was all very anti-climactic.