Arctic Summer (42 page)

Other books that helped me were
The Forster–Cavafy Letters
edited by Peter Jeffreys (The American University in Cairo Press, 2009);
Aspects of E. M. Forster
edited by Oliver Stallybrass (Edward Arnold, 1969);
Concerning E. M. Forster
by Frank Kermode (Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2009);
E. M. Forster, Interviews and Recollections
edited by J. H. Stape (St Martin's Press, 1993);
E. M. Forster's India
by G. K. Das (Macmillan Press, 1977); and
Islam
by Alfred Guillaume (Penguin, 1954). Ronald Hyam's
Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience
(Manchester University Press, 1990) provided the quote from Kenneth Searight's poem which appears on page 7. The line from Cavafy's “The God Abandons Antony” on page 238 is from the first English translation by G. A. Valassopoulo, which appeared in
Pharos and Pharillon
in 1923.

I am very grateful to the School of English at the Univer­sity of St Andrews and the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust for a generous residency in 2012.

My thanks for their insights to Tony Peake, Alison Lowry and Margaret Stead. In addition, I am grateful to Fourie Botha, Ellen Seligman, Nigel Maister, Peter Cartwright, Neel Mukherjee, Tamsin Shelton, David Davidar and Aienla Ozukum for their critical perceptions; to Anat Yakuel, for a space to work in; and for his help on my visit to the Barabar Caves, to Manish Shavoren.

Damon Galgut's 2003 novel
The Good Doctor
won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In a Strange Room
(Europa, 2010) was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2013, Galgut was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.