Isak Dinesen
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| Title | : | Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass |
| Author | : | Isak Dinesen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 462 pages |
| Published | : | October 23rd 1989 by Vintage (first published 1937) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Cultural. Africa. Autobiography. Memoir. Classics. Biography. Travel. History |
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Out of Africa tells the story of a farm that the narrator once had in Africa. The farm is located at the foot of the Ngong hills outside of Nairobi, in what is now Kenya. It sits at an altitude of six thousand feet. The farm grows coffee, although only part of its six thousand acres is used for agriculture. The remaining parts of the land are forest and space for the natives to live on.Identify Books As Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
| Original Title: | Out of Africa ~ Shadows on the Grass |
| ISBN: | 0679724753 (ISBN13: 9780679724759) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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I had seen the movie adaptation of this book and loved it for the landscape. It's a poor advertisement for the book. The landscape is still there, but the story is almost completely different. While the movie is very overtly a love story between a man and a woman (and a pretty good one) the book is a love story between a woman and a continent. The man who is her lover in the movie appears in the book, but she never explicitly states that he is her lover, and she certainly never discusses theThis book, while firmly entrenched in a racist colonialist system, is amazing. The writing is gorgeous - vivid, poetic, and unforgettable language that leaves your mind filled with images and landscapes that you'll never experience in real life. I thought this book was wonderful - an impressive account of a woman who was way before her time, very independent. Also an interesting slice of history. It's a fascinating read.
A Danish noblewoman comes to Africa gets married to a Swedish Baron, her second cousin and starts a coffee plantation close to the Ngong Hills in the Kenyan Colony southwest of Nairobi then just a small town before the start of WWI. Isak Dinesen ( nee Karen Blixen) finds real love and tragedy while managing it 1913-1931. The unfaithful husband Baron Bror Blixen neglects the Baroness and not interested in the farm , he enjoys the company of other women. At an elevation above 6,000 feet you can
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) wrote this collection of memories from her time owning and operating a coffee farm in the Ngong Hills. If you're reading this expecting to see the script from Out of Africa, you'll be sorely disappointed. That was my initial expectation but I stuck with the book and as a result, feel like I have a much richer and more detailed picture of life in Kenya in the early 20th century.Some readers have objected to Blixen's language and description of Kenyans and various
This is the volume to read because Out of Africa was written in 1937 about Dinesens time running her coffee plantation from 1913 to 1931. But Shadows in the Grass tells lots of small tales about the same characters in her life and was written decades later (in 1960) with small tales of cross-cultural experience and some stories of what happened to people that she knew in Kenya.Unlike her gothic and aristocratic style of fiction, these are down-to-earth and more like Hemingway in their crisp
While there's a lot of colonialist/racist perspective in Karen Blixen's writing in this memoir, there is also a lot of beautiful language, insightful descriptions of people and country, and a wealth of information about a place and time I can barely imagine, so I think the benefits of reading Out of Africa outweigh the downsides. The writing is inconsistent, at times strikingly beautiful, others very ordinary and rather disorganized. It doesn't seem an editor was involved. Well worth reading
I picked this book up after a few years of looking at it on my book shelf, and I had a hard time putting it down. The memoir is organized non-chronologically in a series of stories you can imagine the author telling guests over tea or a glass of wine later in life. The author's tone is at times uncomfortably elitist/arrogant, although I assume you need a very healthy amount of confidence to live the way she did in Africa. Learning her views on race and class in colonial Africa is one of the most
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