Kim Rudyard Kipling ; edited with an introduction and notes by Edward W. Said.
Material type:
- 0140183523 :
- 9780140183528
- 823/.8 20
- PR4854 .K4 1989
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EIS Library Main Library | English Fiction Adolescent-Adult | EFA SL KIP K49 | Available | L0012976 |
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white. Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life. A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, 'Kim' captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.
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