Karen blixen biography out of africa summary

memoir by Karen Blixen

This article is about the book. For the film, see Out of Africa (film).

Karen blixen biography out of africa summary

For other uses, see Out of Africa (disambiguation).

Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in , recounts events of the eighteen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa.

The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire.

Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it in Danish.

Out of africa movie

The book has sometimes been published under the author's pen name, Isak Dinesen.

Background

Karen Blixen moved to British East Africa in late , at the age of 28, to marry her second cousin, the SwedishBaronBror von Blixen-Finecke, and make a life in the British colony known today as Kenya.

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