Kim
Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling's native India, Kim is widely acknowledged as the author's greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of an orphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is unwittingly dragged into the Great Game of Imperialism. During his many adventures, he befriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms his life. As Pankaj Mishra asserts in his Introduction, To read the novel now is to notice the melancholy wisdom that accompanies the native boy's journey through a broad and open road to the narrow duties of the whi…
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Weitere Autoren: Mishra, Pankaj (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8129-7134-7
- EAN: 9780812971347
- Produktnummer: 1241639
- Verlag: Random House
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.5 cm 295 g
- Auflage: Modern Library
- Gewicht: 295
Über den Autor
Pankaj Mishra is the author of The Romantics. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London.
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