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The White Masai: My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure

by Corinne Hofmann

ISBN13: 9780061131530
ISBN10: 0061131539
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The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his mother, and spends four years in his Kenyan village. Slowly but surely, the dream starts to crumble, and she hatches a plan to return home with her daughter, a baby born of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. Compulsively readable, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.

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Corinne Hofmann has written three books based on her life story, including two sequels to The White Masai—Back from Africa, which is a bestseller in Germany, and Reunion in Barsaloi, which was released in 2005. She lives with her teenage daughter in Switzerland.

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: egogrif, July 21, 2011 (view all comments by egogrif)
When I started reading this, I soon put aside everything else to finish it. It is a gripping story, not easy to put down! At its heart it is a tale of domestic violence, but the settings are strange and wonderful. Corinne Hofmann does a fine job of balancing the narrative with her own musings, memories, and inner turmoil. I found myself really cheering for her, and frightened for her as the story progressed. I am currently reading one of the two follow-up books she wrote to this one.
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ISBN:: 9780061131530
Author:: Hofmann, Corinne
Publisher:: Amistad Press
Translator:: Millar, Peter
Author:: by Corinne Hofmann
Author:: Elson, Lawrence M.
Subject:: General
Subject:: Personal Memoirs
Subject:: Women
Subject:: General Biography
Subject:: General science
Subject:: Biography-Ethnic Cultures
Subject:: Biography-Women
Edition Description:: Trade PB
Publication Date:: 20071031
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 320
Dimensions:: 8.04x5.34x.82 in. .57 lbs.

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