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jcl9094 's review for:
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen
adventurous
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
The Blixens had 600 acres for their coffee plantation near Nairobi.
Karen Blixen wrote about her time in Africa and described the beauty of its landscape. There was a lot of sport killing of wildlife.
This memoir was published in 1937 and is dated with aristocracy and racist colonialism. Even though she felt great affection for her servants, especially Farah, she still saw herself as their “god” and superior; the people on “her African land” were “squatters and natives”.
The story itself is a collection of vignettes without chronological order.
A slow and sometimes dull read.
Karen Blixen wrote about her time in Africa and described the beauty of its landscape. There was a lot of sport killing of wildlife.
This memoir was published in 1937 and is dated with aristocracy and racist colonialism. Even though she felt great affection for her servants, especially Farah, she still saw herself as their “god” and superior; the people on “her African land” were “squatters and natives”.
The story itself is a collection of vignettes without chronological order.
A slow and sometimes dull read.