by Karen Blixen · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140282610
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«Out of Africa» is the autobiographical work by Karen Blixen, published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK) in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Blixen recounts her life in Kenya, where she arrived in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, and evokes the African landscape, her relationship with the people of the region, and the animals. The narrative conveys a deep bond with a land and a way of life now vanished, told with sensitivity and a lucid gaze at loss.
Work originally published in 1937; this edition is from 1999 and includes 336 pages. The author also wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen.
Reading for those seeking a classic of travel literature and memoirs about colonial Kenya.
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.
