Kim

De: Rudyard Kipling

Narrado por: Sam Dastor

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Kipling's masterpiece Kim is his final and most famous work and one of the first and greatest espionage stories ever written. It explores the life of Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan who spends his childhood as a vagrant in Lahore. When he befriends an aged Tibetan lama his life is transformed as he is requested to accompany him on a mysterious quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment. The pilgrimage will take them across the vast continent, across rivers, and up the Himalayas.

While Kim wishes to take part in the imperialistic Great Game, learning espionage from the British secret service, he feels spiritually bound to the lama. Kim has a difficult choice to make: his companion or his country?

A rich and colourful depiction of India's exotic landscape and culture in the imperialistic world of the late 19th century, this audiobook celebrates their friendship and explores a young man's quest for identity.

Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist who was the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his most memorable works include The Jungle Book and Just So Stories.

In 1998 Kim was ranked at Number 78 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003 it was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 'best-loved novel'.

Narrator Biography

A Cambridge graduate who trained at RADA under the direction of Sir Laurence Olivier, Sam Dastor has long featured on screen and stage. He is best known for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) and for twice portraying Gandhi in both Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986), and Jinnah (1998).Sam Dastor has starred in many West End productions with roles such as Ariel in The Tempest, and Orlando in As You Like It. His most recent work has included starring on stage at the Wolsey Theatre in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016). He has narrated a large catalogue of audiobooks including V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas.

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My favorite story read in particularly interesting way.

I'm a bit biased. This is my favorite book so my comments here are more toward the narration. At first it was hard to get used to someone else speaking the words I've read multiple times. Eventually though I was won over by the cadence of speech and accents for each character that it brought the book new life for me.

Very interesting

This was an excellent and intriguing narrative equal to any modern espionage story. Kim is a book which introduces and documents the beautiful, rich, diverse tapestry of culture, ethnic thought pattern, religion and the purpose of life explored through the interactions and adventures of a boy turning into a man. Very interesting. The different voices were excellent.

The Game is Indeed Great

The story was more of Brother Kipling's mastery or descriptions, of his ability to weave together the human scenery of a place and a time so artfully as to make you feel like you've been there yourself.

The narration was also excellent, and by the end, you like each voice was an old friend. Each character was distinct and recognizable.

Wonderful

Rudyard Kipling is such a talented author like this is so awesome I love it!

Edifying and uplifting story for the ages

One might well characterize this novel as India’s version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a road book, a book of intrigue, a cultural odyssey, a coming of age story, a spiritual journey — it is many faceted. The performer was up to the challenge as there are not only many characters with different dialects and cultural mannerisms but characters who shift into multiple identities as they play the “game.” Kipling wrote some marvelous novellas but very few lengthy novels. This has to be his masterpiece.