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        Kim


        setting

        India/Pakistan

        time

        Late 1800s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1905

        page count

        338

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Kim, the Lama, Col. Creighton, Mahbub Ali

        Rip's impressions

        P. Bowles and James Joyce combined––this is a harder kick to the gut then Clockwork Orange. There's dense emotional dialogue and laughs, mixed with great meanness.

        first line

        He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun of Zam-Zammeh on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaibgher - the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)