Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean s Academy Award winning film, A Passage to India unravels the growing racial tension between Indians, uneasy at best with colonial power, and the British, largely ignorant and dismissive of the society they're infiltrating. A sudden moment of confusion results in a devastating series of events that threatens to ruin a man's life, revealing just how deeply and swiftly prejudice has taken root.