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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt; The four-million-copy international bestseller of the incredible love story between a European woman and an African warrior &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; The White Masai combines adventure and the pursuit of passion in a page-turning story of two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds. Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa on Kenya's glamorous coast.Despite language and cultural barriers, they embark on an impossible love affair. Corinne uproots her life to move to Africa&amp;#151;not the romantic Africa of popular culture, but the Africa of the Masai, in the middle of the isolated bush, where five-foot-tall huts made from cow dung serve as homes. Undaunted by wild animals, hunger, and bouts with tropical diseases, she tries to forge a life with Lketinga. But slowly the dream starts to crumble when she can no longer ignore the chasm between their two vastly different cultures. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; A story that taps into our universal belief in the power of love,&lt;i&gt; The White Masai &lt;/i&gt;is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a compulsively good read. &lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now - before I started and indeed after reading the first few chapters, this book is making me angry. Angry is maybe not the right word. I just think that she's an ignorant dufus. Who makes a decision to change your life so dramatically (and invade someone else's home) based on deciding you've falle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5409080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book while perusing the non-fiction shelf at the East Windsor Branch of the Queens Public Library. I first noticed the word Masai, and thought back to some comments my friend Penny had made after her trip to Kenya where she visited a Masai village. She was shocked at the poor treatment ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27037116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Without a doubt, Hofmann has a compelling - and sensational - story to tell.  While on holiday, she glimpses a magnificent Masai warrior on the opposite shore, and then gives up her white boyfriend, her business in Switzerland - and just about everything else - to go live in the bush with him as his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24310827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I almost gave up on this book - I didn't find the writing all that good, and the premise of lifelong love at first sight (literally!) seemed a little silly.  But the adventure part caught me up - and her travels in the Land Rover were especially interesting.  <br/><br/>Living in Hawaii, with its m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25140617">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While the author of this story doesn't come across very well in the book, unfortunately coming across as very Germanic (not in a good sense), the story is unique and intriguing. Hoffman has gathered many critics of her story who can't fathom her impracticality, impulsiveness and willingness to jeopa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80038590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh I loved this book. Especially because it's a true story. This book made me more aware of all the luxury that we have here in The Netherlands. Made me appreciate all the little things that are so &quot;normal&quot; to me, like drinking water from our faucet, a warm bed every night, clothes to ware...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33903898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a fascinating story, but the main character is an incredibly selfish person, and that bothered me a lot. Also, the translation is not great, and the writing wasn't spectacular to begin with. But I was compelled to read it quickly, it's a bizarre, intreuging account of a woman who pursues her &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13903043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book by a Swiss woman who, visiting Kenya, falls in love at first site with a Masai warrior, and gives up her life in Switzerland to be with him and marry him, without much of a common language, and without much knowledge or him or his life in the bush.  It was interesting, but I still find it har...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72835720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit I read this.  One feels sympathy for Hofmann, who falls in love with a Masai man she meets while on vacation in Mombasa.  But why anyone intelligent enough to write this book would not investigate the culture and circumstances of their &quot;beloved&quot; before sel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48792747">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book because the story sounded intriguing and I couldn't believe it could be a real story. Wanted to know what were the author's motivations and reflections on what she had done - it was so completely outrageous. But was disappointed to find that there was hardly any personal revelatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61862068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a case of truth being stranger than fiction! The author is a Swiss woman who catches sight of a Masai warrior on a vacation to Kenya, instantly falls in love with him, returns home, sells everything and returns to Kenya to move in with him.  This involves living the same life he &amp; his family...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53534662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's fragmented in the beginning, I think this works out with the fact that she was learning English, but it does start to flow better as the story continues. I think the author wrote this to be a love story, but it's a train wreck all the way through and I couldn't help thinking, &quot;noooooo, wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24264687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mom recommended this book in preparation for our family trip to Kenya.  It's the story of the relationship between the author, a Swiss businesswoman, and Lketinga, a Masai warrior, who fall in love despite many cultural barriers.  The author's story of life in the African bush is pretty interesti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46274435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sooo intriguing. I can't believe this women gives up her life for a man she doesn't even know, has nothing in common with and can't really communicate with. It's an intruiging read and I am eagre to read how it all turns out. She has great determination and strength to live a life that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35361512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Over the first quarter of this book this woman reminded me of Madame Bovary.  Lost in the romance of it all, she can't seem to fathom how stupid she is.  That opinion mellowed when it became evident she was serious about trying at least to make her life in Kenya work.  Not great writing, but good fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60501827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Corinne Hofmann, a German Swiss woman, falls in love with the idea of marrying an exotic African man and living his life on his terms.  You can imagine the initial euphoria of discovery and adventure morphing into a muddy pudding of heartbreak, cultural misunderstandings and disillusionment.  A stro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49972178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned a lot about Masai culture, but I could never get over how kooky the author is.  Only a nut would fall in love at first sight with a Masai warrior she sees on the shore and decide immediately that she would marry him without knowing the first thing about him or his culture.  It is only natu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71730804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of this woman is truly fascinating.  She is adventurous, brave, and crazy!  I enjoyed reading about her life in Africa all the while being comfy in my home with walls not made of dung.  I could never have done what she did and don't think I would ever have been so in lust with a man that I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44357593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent, true story, written by a Swiss woman who falls in love with a Masai warrior and gives up the luxuries of the Western world to live with the last &quot;tribal&quot; community in Kenya.  Illustrating her celebrations and struggles, Corinne Hofmann takes her readers on an adventure they w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41172924">more...</a>]]></body>
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