A review by sarah_tollok
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

4.0

I wish I could give separate star ratings for the plot and for the writing itself. The plot is slow and nothing terribly interesting happens until halfway through, and that isn't much. However, I kept reading because Forster just writes so beautifully. His descriptions of the Indian landscape are just amazing, even when he is describing the punishing and baking heat in this passage: "Electric fans hummed and spat, water splashed on screens, ice clinked, and outside these defenses, between a greyish sky and a yellowish earth, clouds of dust moved hesitatingly." Also, read this for the human study that it is. You ease into the characters. You get to know them first as each a stereotype, then they get whittled down to more and more human as the pages turn, despite the differences in time period and culture.