Isak Dinesen
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| 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 |
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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.Describe Books To Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
| Original Title: | Out of Africa ~ Shadows on the Grass |
| ISBN: | 0679724753 (ISBN13: 9780679724759) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 10196 Users | 406 ReviewsNotice Regarding 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 titleI 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
Out 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
"If I know a song of Africa . . . of the Giraffe, and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields, and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Would the air over the plain quiver with a colour that I had had on, or the children invent a game in which my name was, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or would the eagles of Ngong look out for me?" -Out of Africa"The news of Farah's death to me was
An interesting collection of anecdotes from Africa in the early 1900s. It is better than a history book because you get to learn about it from the words of someone who lived it. The colonialism approach of the time that is seen in the writing can be construed as imperialistic and, at times, racially inappropriate. However, I would say that the author is writing what she knows at the time and never gets malicious to or speaks down about anyone in her story - even if there are undertones that
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
Having not seen the movie or read the book, but remembering hearing about the movie that Out of Africa is one of the greatest love stories ever told I went into the reading thinking just that. I was already picturing Meryl Streep and Robert Redford because of the popularity of the movie (though my movie tie-in copy of the book probably did not help).It took me 70 pages to realize that there is no specific story here, that the book is Isak Dinesen's (pseudonym for Baroness Karen Blixen) memoirs
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