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A review by uhambe_nami
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
4.0
Kim is a wonderful novel about an orphaned boy and a Holy Man on their quest to find meaning and truth. I loved it for the vivid imagery of the Indian landscapes, and the beautiful connection between Kimball and his holy man, the lama. I can't resist quoting the bit where the boy just met the lama, who is searching for a River of Healing, and tells him that he, too, is searching for something: a Red Bull on a green field - which soon turns out to be the flag of the Irish regiment his late father was part of:
I heard thy talk in the Wonder House of all those new strange places in the Hills, and if one so old and so little - so used to truthtelling - may go out for the small matter of a river, it seemed to me that I too must go a-travelling. If it is our fate to find those things we shall find them - thou, thy River, and I, my Bull, and the strong Pillar and some other matters that I forget.
I heard thy talk in the Wonder House of all those new strange places in the Hills, and if one so old and so little - so used to truthtelling - may go out for the small matter of a river, it seemed to me that I too must go a-travelling. If it is our fate to find those things we shall find them - thou, thy River, and I, my Bull, and the strong Pillar and some other matters that I forget.