Kim
- Category Literature & Fiction
- Format PB
- Imprint
- Price 195
- ISBN: 978-81-291-1994-0
- Pages: 334 pages
- Date: December 2012
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Set in the teeming streets of colonial India, Kipling’s novel tells the story of
Kimball O’Hara, a young Irish orphan who leads a vagabond existence, growing
up in the walled city of Lahore. He befriends an old Tibetan lama searching for
the mythical River of the Arrow, and with him, sets out on an incredible journey
along the Grand Trunk Road.
En route, Kim is embroiled in a series of adventures that have him thieving,
begging and trying his hand at disguises with an eccentric bunch of characters—the
enigmatic Sahiba of Saharanpur; the mysterious Bengali babu, Hurree Chunder
Mookherjee, and the Pashtun horse-trader, Mahbub Ali—and is recruited by the
British Secret Service to train as a young
