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When 26-year-old Ayan is sent to live with his grumpy old grandfather Gopal Shanker in a tiny village in Kerala, he is understandably devastated. What can a sleepy, idyllic village without even internet connectivity offer a young man?

100 dage er en roman om pragt og privilegier, svigt og misbrug på første klasse. Om enevældige konger i og uden for kongehuset. Og om de skeletter, der gemmer sig i de store walk-in-closets i villaerne med udsigt til Øresund. Romanen foregår i de nordlige forstæder omkring Dyrehaven: Klampenborg, Ordrup og Hellerup. Her lever beboerne bag hvidpudsede facader og tunge smedejernslåger, men under al pragten hersker uregerlige tilstande, hvor den stærkeste part klarer sig på den svages bekostning.

This story was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on September 26th 1884, when Kipling was not yet nineteen, and collected in Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of this collection. It was his first short story to be published - a tour de force that set a standard which - with a few lapses - he maintained for the rest of his life. The tale is presented as a monologue by Gabral Misquitta, a half-caste opium addict, six weeks before his death.

Ideen med at genudgive 100 af mine digte er min egen... Få digtere har haft held til at skrive mere end en håndfuld, lad os sige 10-30, rigtig gode digte i deres liv. Jeg hævder heller ikke, at alle de 100 digte, jeg har udvalgt, er rigtig gode. Men jeg håber, at nogle af dem er det. Dem må den enkelte læser selv finde.