Synopses & Reviews
"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir
Out of Africa (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world."—Bruce Allen,
Christian Science Monitor"Letters from Africa is literary gold, 24 karat."—Alden Whitman, Boston Globe
Table of Contents
The Rain at Ngong: An Introduction to the Letters of Isak Dineson
Chronology by Frans Lasson
Translator's Note
Letters from Africa 1914-1931
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
Notes
Index