The late stories of Kipling - for the first time in German by Gisbert Haefs. "Remarkable and discreet, he renewed himself time and again until the end," wrote Borges about Kipling's last stories, the master storyteller whose work still remains overshadowed by The Jungle Book. Written shortly after the death of his son, his final tales offer a darkly luminous psychological portrait of inner pain and a way out of the labyrinth. His heroes, drawn from life, transcended every boundary until the very end.