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Kim

1901

Rudyard Kipling

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

1901

Kimball O'Hara is a orphan boy raised on the streets of Lahore, his身份 fluid between the Indian world he knows and the British world that claims him. When he falls in with a weathered Tibetan lama seeking the mythical River of the Arrow a river said to wash away sin the two form an unlikely bond that will reshape both their lives. Kim becomes the lama's disciple, accompanying him on a pilgrimage across the subcontinent, while simultaneously being drawn into the Great Game, the deadly espionage conflict between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia. As the boy transforms into a young man navigating the treacherous waters of empire, he must choose between the excitement of the Great Game and his spiritual devotion to the old priest who has become his soul's compass. Kipling wrote this novel at the height of British imperialism, and the book pulses with the contradictions of that era: its love for India is genuine, even as its narrative serves imperial interests. Yet what endures is the luminous friendship at its heart two searchers from opposite ends of the earth, one young and one old, one white and one Tibetan, both seeking something they cannot name. The road they travel becomes a prism through which Kipling captures the teeming, beautiful, chaotic reality of a nation. For readers who crave adventure, spiritual depth, and the pleasures of a master storyteller at work.

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