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| Author: Peter Hopkirk
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 56681
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0472086340
Dewey Decimal Number: 820
EAN: 9780472086344
ASIN: 0472086340
Publication Date: October 7, 1999
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 A Flawed Masterpiece. October 5, 2001
6 out of 27 found this review helpful
The title sounds strange and vague but that is what I feel about this novel. It is a slow but an interesting novel if an individual might just have the patience to let the story/plot build up. Its considered to be Kipling's masterpiece and I will vouch for the same opinion. The range of emotions, the characterisation, the development of plot are all technically perfect, but the novel wants genuine feeling. True, that Kipling presents a very correct picture of 'colonial' India, but the picture is presented through a glass tainted with colonialism. Though Kim's love for India is very real and genuine, its imperialistic under tones are difficult to ignore.
All and all I would say it is a masterpiece albeit flawed
 A beautiful book! December 20, 2000
If you've ever wished that you could actually visit Kipling's India, this book is for you. You will not be able to put it down...The author's detective work is intriguing and quite a feat. I loved this book!
You'll love this if you love Kim June 4, 1999
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Okay, I'm one of those people who, like author Peter Hopkirk, am totally enamored of the novel Kim. Hopkirk researches and traces the sources and inspirations for many of the characters and places in Kim. I confess that when I started to read Hopkirk's book, I was fearful lest it spoil Kim's magic. But I found the very opposite to be the case. The more I read Hopkirk's book, the more Kim grew in richness, depth, and life, and the more I felt awe for Kipling's masterpiece.
Readable but Flawed December 22, 1997
9 out of 22 found this review helpful
"Quest for Kim" is an enjoyable book, particularly for those who read Kim again and again. However, there's an astonishing error on page 117, where Hopkirk discusses the Lama's stay "at a temple belonging to the Thirthankars, or Jains. Founded by Buddha's own son, the faith of the Jains..." The Buddha's son, Rahul, did no such thing. Jainism has no founder, but a series of 24 preceptors stretching back into time well befor the Buddha's own day. The last, Mahavira, was a contemporary of the Buddha's. It's distressing to see such an elementary error being made by an author as distinguished as Peter Hopkirk. He might as well have claimed that Judaism was founded by the son of the Christ!
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