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Out of Africa Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen

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Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."

Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) was born Karen Christence Dinesen in Rungsted, Denmark. She wrote poems, plays, and stories from an early age, including Seven Gothic TalesWinter's TalesLast TalesAnecdotes of DestinyShadows on the Grass and EhrengardOut of Africa is considered her masterpiece.

Format
401 pages, Hardcover

Published
January 1, 1992 by The Modern Library

ISBN
9780679600213 (ISBN10: 0679600213)

Language
English

USED BOOK

IN NEAR FINE CONDITION

 

 

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