Jennifer's review
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen
Jennifer's review
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Jennifer's review
rating:
At first there were two problems with this book--after studying post-colonialism the colonial voice can be awfully annoying (oh my dark skinned servents are so cute/quirky/different and here's a story about that, etc, etc) and also I kept thinking where's Robert Redford? But by the end of the book I was riveted, probably because it becomes so obvious by then that she is completely in love with Africa and that having to leave against her will was a life-altering trauma...there's as much there in what she doesn't write as what she writes...and it seems to me that anyone who's had to leave someplace or someone that they really loved can relate to that.
