Isak Dinesen
Paperback | Pages: 462 pages Rating: 4.24 | 10196 Users | 406 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Out of Africa ~ Shadows on the Grass |
| ISBN: | 0679724753 (ISBN13: 9780679724759) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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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.Mention Appertaining To Books Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
| Title | : | Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass |
| Author | : | Isak Dinesen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 462 pages |
| Published | : | October 23rd 1989 by Vintage (first published 1937) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Cultural. Africa. Autobiography. Memoir. Classics. Biography. Travel. History |
Rating Appertaining To Books Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
Ratings: 4.24 From 10196 Users | 406 ReviewsCritique Appertaining To Books Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
What a masterpiece. Out of Africa uses poetry for what is essentially a memoir, tells gently of human tragedies large and small, and records a lovely time that seems even to the author to be magical and impossible, yet it is nonfiction.Isak Dinesen wrote in her second language - English, just as Josseph Conrad did. She used an assumed name, and even in life in her vanity she went by "Baroness Blixen," even though her marriage to the holder of that name was broken and his own claim to the titleOut of Africa was first published in 1937, after the author's return to Denmark. Shadows on the Grass consists of four more essays. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, titled 'Echoes from the Hills', was written in the 60s. They just add a few more details about events and characters mentioned in the original book.The movie Out of Africa, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, was produced and directed by Sydney Pollack. It was based not only on Blixen's Out of Africa, but
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
I cried four times while reading this book. For the beauty of the writing (fireflies), the sentiment (the zoo animals, lulu) and for gratitude that this woman existed and wrote these words down. It's my favorite type of writing - descriptive and evocative. She is able to make me feel like I am there with her. I think she noticed and felt so much that she had to be a writer. I also admire her and how she lived her life. This was a strong woman who seemed to keep a sense of innocence that allowed
I would rate this closer to a 3.5. I liked it very well, but maybe not a "really" liked it. The writing, first off, is beautiful. If I closed my eyes, I could almost feel the hot sun, and smell the grass of the plains of Africa, along with hearing the roar of a lion. This is not a book however for a person seeking high adventure. Living on a coffee farm, it appears, is quite a non-action endeavor. So some parts seemed to lag for me. I have seen some people complain about the racism in this book.
I really hated the first 3/4 of this book. I didn't like the anecdotal style of writing. I didn't like that there was no chronological order. It read very much like an unpracticed storyteller, "this one thing happened, i'm going to talk about it for 20 pages. but wait, this thing happened before that, and i'll talk about that. i guess i'm going to skip ahead 5 years and tell you this other story, and then go back to the beginning to share a different story." I really disliked that. I hated the
Short of booking passage to Nairobi, reading this 1937 memoir of Danish author Karen Blixen (using the pen name Isak Dinesen) who arrived in East Africa in 1914 with her husband in a bid to grow coffee beans, is the next best thing. It might be even be more instructive than visiting Africa as a tourist, as Blixen's vivid and sensual writing makes you feel as if you've lived there.The Blixens separated in 1921 and it's revealing that the author never mentions her ex-husband or touches on her
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