Kim

Rudyard Kipling’s great picaresque follows Kimball O’Hara across colonial India through espionage, spiritual quest, railway movement, and a world alive with competing loyalties.

At a glance Kim is one of Rudyard Kipling’s richest and most mobile novels: a picaresque story of… At its center is Kimball O’Hara, a resourceful boy who belongs everywhere and nowhere… Themes The novel explores identity, performance, colonial power, language, surveillance… Kipling’s India is energetic and crowded with voices, but the book is also inseparable…

The novel explores identity, performance, colonial power, language, surveillance, travel, and the tension between worldly action and inward freedom.