Kim by Rudyard Kipling is a paperback book in very good pre-owned condition. Some minor scuffs to the back cover but otherwise, clean, no marks, intact.
Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling’s native India, Kim
is widely acknowledged as the author’s greatest novel and a key element
in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of
an orphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is
unwittingly dragged into the Great Game of Imperialism. During his
many adventures, he befriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms
his life. As Pankaj Mishra asserts in his Introduction, “To read the
novel now is to notice the melancholy wisdom that accompanies the native
boy’s journey through a broad and open road to the narrow duties of
the white man’s world: how the deeper Buddhist idea of the illusion of
the self, of time and space, makes bearable for him the anguish of
abandoning his childhood.”