Filled with lyrical exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kiplings nativeIndia <strong>Kim</strong> is widely acknowledged as the authors greatest novel and a ... » 

Filled with lyrical exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kiplings nativeIndia Kim is widely acknowledged as the authors greatest novel and a keyelement in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of anorphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is unwittinglydragged into the Great Game of Imperialism. During his many adventures hebefriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms his life. As Pankaj Mishraasserts in his Introduction To read the novel now is to notice the melancholywisdom that accompanies the native boys journey through a broad and open roadto the narrow duties of the white mans world how the deeper Buddhist idea ofthe illusion of the self of time and space makes bearable for him the anguishof abandoning his childhood. «