July's book on the New Year's Resolution reading list is A Passage to India.
Ah - what can I say?
I loved it.
Especially coming on the heels of Under the Volcano - which tried so hard to convey Mexico (and to me, cumbersomely, achingly so) - Forster conveyed India without effort and I think that's what makes him so brilliant.
A Passage to India - like all Forster's books, is about manners and customs and the social boundaries that pull people us together (through nationality, social status and gender) and tear us apart.
On it's surface this book is so easy but it's themes are complex and universal. Somehow, you learn a deep lesson without ever having known you were being instructed.
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