Out of Africa; And, Shadows on the Grass
by:
Isak Dinesen (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780816141814 (0816141819)
Publish date: December 1st 1986
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Pages no: 566
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Kenya
"There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it. I stood for some time wondering what it had meant. Nobody could aim at anything at this hour, and, to scare away something, a per...
i'm a bit confused by how much most people love this book. i'd like to give it 2 stars because there certainly is value in it, and at times she writes quite beautifully, but those times are fleeting. the narrative is overpowered by lesser writing, but more importantly, i could really not get past ...
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