Kim
Dec 2025 · Edicions Perelló
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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.
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, an...
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His literary fame began with six short stories about the lives of the English in India, published between 1888 and 1889, in which a fast, concise style with direct language already stands out—a hallmark of his entire body of work. He is the author of such well-known books as The Light That Failed (1891), Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) and The Jungle Book (1894), which has been adapted for the screen on numerous occasions.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His literary fame began with six short stories about the lives of the English in India, published between 1888 and 1889, in which a fast, concise style with direct language already stands out—a h...
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