Arctic Summer, Galgut Damon

Shifting across the landscapes of India, Egypt, and England, Forsters 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. Cavafy. This reimagining of Forsters life is at once enlightening, humorous and deeply convincing--a clear ad sympathetic psychological probing of one of Britains finest novelists. As The Financial Times notes: The concern is Forsters 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. Arctic Summer is a powerfully candid portait of an author, created by one of the finet writers of his generation.