'The pain of unequal love and the desolating gulf between desire and fulfillment, so beautifully conveyed here by Glagut in the case of a long-dead writer, is as recognizable today as it was over a century ago.' 'Galgut is extremely good on Forster's anxieties, his loneliness, his unworldliness, and his 'crumpled, second-hand appearance, which made him seem like a tradesman of some kind.' The portrait is beautifully nuanced, a mixture of bold, colorful strokes and delicat little flicks of the brush.' 'The genius of this novel, which would well be one of the finest literary works published this year, lies in Galgut's exploration of the agony of unrequited love.'

Forster that penetrates his inner life better than any conventional biography ever has.' 'The author has managed to craft a version of E.M. 'Beautifully written and utterly compelling.' 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Arctic Summer is a powerfully candid portait of an author, created by one of the finet writers of his generation.

As The Financial Times notes: 'The concern is Forster's inner life, and Galgut inhabits him with such sympathetic completeness, and in prose of such modest excellence that he starts to breathe on the page.' Readers will share in his struggle with repression and self-acceptance, and witness the gradual unfolding of a literary masterpiece. This reimagining of Forster's life is at once enlightening, humorous and deeply convincing-a clear ad sympathetic psychological probing of one of Britain's finest novelists. Shifting across the landscapes of India, Egypt, and England, Forster's life is informed by his relationships-from Mohammed el Adl, an Egyptian tram conductor whose companionship becomes invaluable, to the Greek literary titan, poet C.P. But it will be another twelve years and a second stay in India before the publication of his finest work, A Passage to India. Slowly, the strands of a story begin to gather in his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. Foster's heroic journey of self-discovery, as the novelist confronts his fraught childhood, falls in unrequited love with his closest friend, and finds himself surprisingly freed to explore his 'minorite' desires as secretary to a most unusual Maharajah. Damon Galgut's brilliant fictional biography lures readers into E.M. On board is Edward Morgan Forster, a reserved man taunted by writer's block, attempting to come to terms with his art and his repressed sexuality. The year is 1912, and the SS Birmingham is approaching India.

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