Kim

by Rudyard Kipling · audio summary, about 11 min

Orphaned in Lahore, Kim becomes disciple to an aged Tibetan lama seeking a holy river, while entering the perilous imperial Great Game of espionage across India.

Key ideas

• Identity is fluid: Kim effortlessly navigates divisions of race, caste, and religion across imperial India.
• Spiritual detachment and worldly politics run parallel: the lama's quest for salvation entwines with the covert Great Game of British intelligence.
• True loyalty is forged through shared devotion: Kim's deepest bond is neither with the Empire nor the bazars, but with his unworldly master.

This summary and its voice are made with AI from the public-domain book. They can be wrong.

Listen in the Read Me A Book app - coming soon to Google Play