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Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he lives on the streets, but he is white, a sahib, and wants to play the "Great Game of Imperialism"; while priest must find redemption from the Wheel of Things.

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    A Paperback / softback by Rudyard Kipling

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 5 May 2011
      ISBN-13 9780141442372
      978-0141442372
      ISBN-10 0141442379
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      Book Synopsis
      Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he lives on the streets, but he is white, a sahib, and wants to play the "Great Game of Imperialism"; while priest must find redemption from the Wheel of Things.

      Trade Review
      By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

      “A work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual light as the sky of a frosty night with stars.” —The Atlantic Monthly

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