The White Masai: My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure
The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his...
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The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his mother, and spends four years in his Kenyan village. Slowly but surely, the dream starts to crumble, and she hatches a plan to return home with her daughter, a baby born of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. Compulsively readable, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061131530 (0061131539)
ASIN: 61131539
Publish date: October 2nd 2007
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...