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• Book for January 2010 The Bookseller of Kabul
• Book for March 2010 Daughters of Shame
• Book for April 2010 Out of AfricaOut of Africa
• Book for May 2010 The Diary of a Nobody
• Book for July 2010 Sleep, Pale Sister
• Book for September 2010 The Thirteenth Tale
• Book for October 2010 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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• Archive of 2009 Book Choices

Book choice for April 2010

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

ISBN-10: 0141183330
ISBN-13: 978-0141183336

Synopsis

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.

About the Author

ISAK DINESEN was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931. Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real debut took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name. Out of Africa (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya.