A mysterious incident at the Marabar caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and the presumed guilt of charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, are at the centre of Forster's magnificient novel of India during the Raj. Topical now, as in 1924, in its evocation of the dangers and ambiguities of colonialism, as Forster himself said, it is "about something wider than politics, about the serach of the human race for a lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar caves...