Kim

Kipling`s epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants t o play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands, whi le the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.

• author: Rudyard Kipling