by Isak Dinesen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420407463
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«Memorias de África» is the autobiography of Isak Dinesen, published by Alfaguara in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Isak Dinesen recalls the seventeen years she lived in Kenya after arriving newly married from Denmark, settled on a farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills. She evokes landscapes and colonial life, portrays the Europeans, Somalis, Kikuyus and Maasai who surrounded her, and reflects on the encounter between cultures and her love for a land that shaped her destiny.
The work belongs to Alfaguara's Narrativa Internacional collection.
A work suited to readers of literary memoirs and stories set in colonial Africa.
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
