Kim

Kim is an orphan boy who grows up among the streets, bazaars, and roads of colonial India, learning from an early age to move effortlessly between cultures, languages, and traditions. Gifted with extraordinary intuition and an ambiguous identity, Kim is drawn into a world of travel, espionage, and secrets known as the Great Game, where imperial powers compete for control of the land.



Accompanied by an elderly Tibetan lama in search of spiritual enlightenment, Kim journeys across a vibrant and contradictory country, torn between political intrigue and inner discovery. On this initiatory journey, the boy must decide who he truly is and to which world he belongs. Published in 1901, Kim stands as one of the great adventure novels of world literature, an unforgettable portrait of India, cross-cultural friendship, and the passage from childhood to maturity in a landscape as fascinating as it is dangerous.