by Karen Blixen · Uitgeverij Marmer Boeken BV · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789460683305
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«Out of Africa» is the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen, published by Uitgeverij Marmer Boeken BV in paperback (364 pages, in Dutch).
Out of Africa recounts Karen Blixen's years running a coffee plantation in Kenya, in the Ngong Hills, her life among the Kikuyu people and individuals such as Farah and Kamante, and her relationship with Denys Finch Hatton. It describes the landscape of the African highlands until debts force her to sell the farm and return to Denmark.
Dutch translation by Ruth Wolf and Meike Van Beek. Out of Africa was adapted into a film in 1985 by Sydney Pollack, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
For readers of memoirs and stories set in Africa, in a Dutch edition.
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.
