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Kipling's masterpiece and one of the great stories of all time, Kim tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, whom everyone calls Kim, orphan of a soldier of the Irish regiment. The action takes place in British colonial India, where young and clever Kim meets a Tibetan lama who will change the course of his life. The lama proposes to find a mystical river, and the boy decides to accompany and guide him, but at the same time the voyage hides a secret mission, foreshadowing his future as a member of the secret services. Initiative journey and novel of adventures, edifying work where there are, Kim has not stopped dazzling different generations of readers since it was published in 1901.

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"Kim" is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. The author Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Rudyard Kipling has been attacked for championing British imperialism and celebrated for satirizing it. In fact, he did both. Nowhere does he express his own ambivalence more strongly than in Kim, his rousing adventure novel of a young man of many allegiances. Kimball O’Hara grows up an orphan in the walled city of Lahore, India. Deeply devoted to an old Tibetan lama but involved in a secret mission for the British, Kim struggles to weave the strands of his life into a single pattern. Charged with action and suspense, yet profoundly spiritual, Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells, colors and characters, opulence and squalor of complex, contradictory India under British rule.