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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE
In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is E. M. Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself, partly through his frustrated love for Masood, the charismatic Indian man who he has come to India for, as well as the eventual embracing of his homosexuality in the arms of Mohammed, the young bus conductor in Alexandria (under the encouragement of the great Greek poet Cavafy). His insights on the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature will be brought to bear in his remarkable novel.
At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists, his struggle to find a way of living and being, and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation, twice nominated for the prestigious Booker prize.
Author: Damon Galgut
Paperback Published 20 October 2022 368 pages
Originally published 2014
'It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of love, race and politics, seems perfectly suited as a writer... A remarkable, lyrical tribute' - Guardian