Book description
Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also
his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early
manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest.
Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play
the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the
lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama
searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.
A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment,
Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the
uneasy presence of the British Raj.
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), English short-story writer, novelist
and poet. Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize
for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book
(1894) and the Just So Stories (1902), both children's classics though
they have attracted adult audiences also.
