Kim

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Follow Kim Through His Amazing Journeys In India Masterfully Narrated By Rudyard Kipling

Anyone who hears about Rudyard Kipling will surely think about the Jungle Book – yet few people nowadays know that this talented author has written other masterpieces worth getting immersed into. One such books is Kim – a story about a young street urchin fighting his way through 18th century India on the background of the Great Game.

Kim is a street urchin who makes his living on the streets of India thanks to his savvy nature and amazing survival skills. His true name is Kimball O’Hara and his parents – an Irishman and an Indian mother have left him alone in this world. This boy has the smarts as well as the intuition to use people’s beliefs and superstitions to obtain a room or a meal, yet he inevitably finds himself guided by fate and the supernatural.

Kim is a lovable character that will delight anyone. Rudyard Kipling do a great job not only in depicting this young boy, but illustrating his progression into adulthood as well. Kim becomes a disciple of a Lama who undergoes a great quest – a quest that will place him in some of the weirdest and intricate plots on the background of the Great Game – a time in which both Russia and Great Britain challenged each other for control over India.

Readers will find themselves immersed into the struggles and victories of young Kim as he navigates through India. In the novel, Kipling doesn’t just show the progression of a young soul but he also depicts the 18th century life in a place where people of different cultures, religions and beliefs clashed. At the center stage is Kim – a boy in search of his identity as he navigates through India in the company of a Tibetan Lama.
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