Author Description

Set in the late 1800’s the novel Kim by Nobel Prize winning English author Rudyard Kipling tells the journey of Kimball O’Hara the orphaned son of a soldier who was part of the Irish regiment just after the Second Afghan War stationed in India. The book deals with the friendship between Kim who is White, but born in India and a lama, an ascetic priest. We meet Kim as a street vagabond and journey through his life from orphan into adoption and eventual recruitment into espionage just before the Third Afghan war. The friendship between cultures is explored as Kipling magnificently captures the exotic landscape of India during the time of Imperialism.