Isak Dinesen
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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 | : | Anniversary 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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Ratings: 4.24 From 10196 Users | 406 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
After visiting Karen Blixen's home in Kenya, I decided that I had to read this book, even though I did not like the movie that much. I don't even know how they got a movie out of this book. I might have liked it better if I had not read "Circling the Sun" so recently, but I did and this book pales in comparison. It just didn't do it for me.I start with the famous paragraph:"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"I almost gasped when I
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
"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
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 title
This book, while firmly entrenched in a racist colonialist system, is amazing. The writing is gorgeous - vivid, poetic, and unforgettable language that leaves your mind filled with images and landscapes that you'll never experience in real life. I thought this book was wonderful - an impressive account of a woman who was way before her time, very independent. Also an interesting slice of history. It's a fascinating read.
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
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