Arctic Summer

Resumen del libro

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan 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 as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Damon Galgutx{0026}lt;/b (Pretoria, 1963) es novelista y dramaturgo. Ha publicado nueve novelas. Con la última de ellas, x{0026}lt;i La promesax{0026}lt;/i (2021, Libros del Asteroide, 2022), ganó el Premio Booker, galardón del que ya había sido finalista en dos ocasiones con x{0026}lt;i El buen doctorx{0026}lt;/i (2003) y x{0026}lt;i In a Strange Roomx{0026}lt;/i (2010). Su novela anterior, x{0026}lt;i Arctic Summerx{0026}lt;/i (2014), fue seleccionada para los premios Walter Scott y Folio y sus libros han sido traducidos a dieciséis idiomas. En 2020 se estrenó la adaptación al cine de su novela x{0026}lt;i The Quarryx{0026}lt;/i (1995). Actualmente vive y trabaja en Ciudad del Cabo.x{0026}lt;/p