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Kim — Rudyard Kipling
Kim — Rudyard Kipling
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Young Kim, an orphan on the streets of Lahore, becomes a spy for British intelligence while searching for his identity. Kipling's richly atmospheric adventure novel explores India, identity, and belonging.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Genre: Fiction / Adventure
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He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that "fire-breathing dragon," hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot. There was some justification for Kim - he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy off the trunnions - since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white - a poor white of the very poorest.
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