Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was attacked for defending British imperialism and drew attention to his satires. In fact, he did both. Nowhere can he express his own ambivalence more powerfully than that of the turbulent adventure novel Kim, a young man with many devotions. Kimball O'Hara grew up as an orphan in the walled city of Lahore in India. Deeply connected to the ancient Tibetan lama, but participating in a secret mission for the British, Kim struggles to weave the threads of his life in a single mold. Loaded with action and suspense, yet deeply spiritual, Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells, the colours and characters, the grandeur and misery of a complex, controversial India under British rule.
