The novel begins in the Indian city of Lahore. The time is the late nineteenth century and the British are in political control of India. Kim, a boy of twelve, is a street urchin. He is an Irish orphan, now living with a poor Indian woman.
Kim's father, a British soldier, left his regiment to work for the railroad. His mother died of cholera, and a few years later his father died from alcoholism and opium.....
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