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Book Review of Kim

Kim
Kim
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Kim, one of Kipling's masterpieces, is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an officer in the Irish Regiment who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. The book is a carefully organized, powerful evocation of place and of a young man's quest for identity.