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Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut6/5/2023 ![]() The avidity of what were then termed Morgan’s “minorite” desires are effectively conveyed, as is the timidity that often frustrates them Morgan is 37 when he loses his virginity to a British soldier in Alexandria. Galgut chronicles Forster’s struggle to complete his “Indian novel” and his “invisible, double life” as a homosexual. Set mostly between Forster’s first trip to India in 1912, during which he visits the caves that play so great a role in A Passage to India, and the 1924 publication of that classic, the novel explores Forster’s intense, sexually tinged friendships with an Indian lawyer, Syed Ross Masood, to whom he dedicated Passage, and the Egyptian tram conductor Mohammed el Adl. ![]() Researched if occasionally leaden novel about E.M. ![]() Talented South African writer Galgut ( The Good Doctor) returns with a well. ![]()
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