So, like some Edgar Allan Poe madman, he's hammered plywood boards across the inside door of his basement study in the brownstone he shares with his estranged husband - a white psychotherapist. Eleven publishers have turned it down the only one who's sort-of interested is about to be bought out by a media conglomerate Kip needs to sell his book before that happens. Here's the premise: A Black, British aspiring novelist named Kip Starling has three weeks to revise his historical novel about the love affair between E.M. At its best, Greenland is a smart, exhilarating novel about racism and self-knowledge whose unwieldiness is compensated for by its daring. In his debut novel, Greenland, David Santos Donaldson takes this crucial but necessarily closeted relationship of Forster's and runs with it, all the way from a basement room in Brooklyn to the icy white expanses of the Greenland of the novel's title. Mohammed's widow sent Forster her husband's gold wedding ring.
There, he met an Egyptian tram driver named Mohammed el-Adl, and began an intense relationship that violated racial and, of course, sexual boundaries.Įven after Forster left Egypt and Mohammed married, the two men kept up a correspondence, which came to a close with Mohammed's death from tuberculosis in 1922. His alternative service took him to Alexandria, Egypt, where he worked for the British Red Cross. Forster, best known for the novels Howard's End, A Room With a View and A Passage to India, was a conscientious objector during World War I.
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