The White Masai
Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday in Kenya. A hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn and, incidentally, a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.
Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday in Kenya. A hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn and, incidentally, a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061131523 (0061131520)
Publish date: October 10th 2006
Publisher: Amistad
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Biography Memoir,
German Literature,
Kenya
Gdyby opowieść Corinne Hofmann była literacką fikcją, to uznałabym, że kreacja głównej bohaterki jest nieprawdopodobna, zbyt dużo w niej naiwności, wręcz infantylizmu. Ponieważ jednak historia jest prawdziwa, potraktować ją można jako swego rodzaju ostrzeżenie, zwrócenie uwagi na to, że zetknięcie s...
The only reason I like this book (and kept on reading it) is that between all the aggravating stupidity that is the choices of this author, there's also a fascinating look into the masai culture. I was not surprised it ended the way it did and I will never understand the reasoning of Corinne Hofmann...