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Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan running wild in the streets of Lahore, becomes the disciple of a Tibetan lama searching for a sacred river, and is drawn into the Great Game of British spying.
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The Man Who Would Be King
Stories of British India, among them two ex-soldiers and con men who set out for remote Kafiristan intending to make themselves kings.
Plain Tales from the Hills
Forty short tales of Anglo-Indian life at Simla and the plains: flirtations, scandals, soldiers, officials and the Indians around them, told in clipped, knowing sketches.
A Passage to India
An English woman, a Muslim doctor, and a British magistrate collide in colonial India, and a young woman's accusation in a cave exposes the fissures of empire.
The Home and the World
During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Bimala, the wife of a liberal landowner, steps out of the women's quarters and falls under the spell of his charismatic friend Sandip, a nationalist leader.
Gora
In 1880s Calcutta, Gora, a fiery young champion of orthodox Hindu nationalism, argues his way through friendships, love and politics, not knowing the truth about his own birth.
Siddhartha
A young Brahmin leaves home to seek enlightenment, passing through wealth, love, and despair before finding wisdom by a river.
The Lincoln Highway
Released from a juvenile work farm in 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett plans to drive west with his little brother, until two boys from the farm stow away and take his car towards New York.
In the Castle of My Skin
G., a boy growing up in a village in colonial Barbados in the 1930s and 40s, watches the old order of the landlord in the big house start to break.
Weep Not, Child
Njoroge, a boy in colonial Kenya, is the first in his family to go to school, and dreams of education as the Mau Mau rising tears his family apart.
Great Expectations
An orphan navigates Victorian England's class system, from the marshes to London, discovering that his mysterious benefactor is not who he assumed.
The Pilgrim Kamanita
In ancient India, the merchant's son Kamanita tells a wandering monk the story of his love for a courtesan, not knowing the monk is the Buddha, and his journey continues beyond death.
The Quiet American
A jaded British journalist in 1950s Vietnam befriends an idealistic American aid worker, not realising the American's quiet mission will cost innocent lives.