"Kim" by Rudyard Kipling is a picaresque novel published in 1901. It follows Kim O'Hara, an Irish orphan living as a street vagabond in British India, who befriends a Tibetan lama seeking spiritual enlightenment. As Kim accompanies the holy man on his quest, the boy is drawn into the dangerous world of espionage and the Great Game—the covert political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel offers a vivid portrait of India's diverse cultures, religions, and peoples. (This is an automatically generated summary.)