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The White Masai

This series compellingly recounts the journey of a woman who leaves Europe for exotic Kenya, where she falls in love with a Maasai warrior. We follow her life filled with cultural clashes, love, motherhood, and a search for self in an unfamiliar environment. The stories are raw, authentic, and emotional, capturing not only the beauty of the African landscape but also the complexity of cross-cultural relationships and personal transformation.

Die Geschichte der weißen Massai
Dziewczyna z szyja̜ żyrafy
Africa, my passion
Reunion in Barsaloi
Back from Africa
The White Masai

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The White Masai

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his mother, and spends four years in his Kenyan village. Slowly but surely, the dream starts to crumble, and she hatches a plan to return home with her daughter, a baby born of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. Compulsively readable, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.

    The White Masai1
    3.5
  2. Back from Africa

    • 180 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    After the phenomenal success of The White Masai and Reunion In Barsaloi, Bliss Books is delighted to publish their equally astonishing.

    Back from Africa2
    3.4
  3. Reunion in Barsaloi

    • 164 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', by his brother, James, now a schoolteacher and especially by Lketinga's mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away, and once again bringing to life the atmosphere and characters in the Masai village.

    Reunion in Barsaloi3
    3.4
  4. Africa, my passion

    • 210 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, and traveling Kenya together for the first time, they discover Napirai's roots and finally meet her father and half-siblings. Hofmann then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. "Narrated with genuine affection for all things African."--Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2014

    Africa, my passion4
    4.0
  5. Nowa książka Corinne Hofmann, „Dziewczyna z szyją żyrafy”, opowiada o jej dzieciństwie w szwajcarskiej prowincji i o tym, jak stała się osobą, którą jest dzisiaj. Pochodząc z prostych warunków i będąc niemieckim dzieckiem w Szwajcarii lat sześćdziesiątych i siedemdziesiątych, od najmłodszych lat nauczyła się, jak najlepiej radzić sobie w trudnych sytuacjach. Ta umiejętność stała się fundamentem, który pozwolił jej przetrwać cztery pełne przygód lata w kenijskim buszu oraz, po powrocie do Europy, z powodzeniem podejmować liczne nowe wyzwania. Dzięki temu stała się silną, odnoszącą sukcesy i radosną kobietą, która nieustannie potrafi zaskakiwać i fascynować swoich czytelników.

    Dziewczyna z szyja̜ żyrafy5
    3.9

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  • Auf den ersten Blick verliebt sich die junge Corinne tief in einen muskulösen masaiischen Krieger und verlässt ihr bisheriges Leben in der zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um sich kopfüber in die ihr unbekannte kenianische Buschlandschaft zu stürzen. In unglaublich primitiven Bedingungen erlebt sie sowohl das Paradies als auch die Hölle auf Erden, und der Traum von großer Liebe verwandelt sich in einen Kampf ums Überleben. Das unendliche Abenteuer bringt die junge Frau an den Rand ihrer physischen und psychischen Kräfte, und sie findet sich völlig mittellos wieder. Doch ihren Kampf gewinnt sie schließlich mit ihrer Tochter Napirai. Nach vier entbehrungsreichen Jahren kehrt sie mit angeschlagener Gesundheit und ihrer Tochter in die Heimat Schweiz zurück und versucht, neu zu beginnen. Ihre afrikanische Familie vergisst sie jedoch nie und unterstützt sie nach einiger Zeit finanziell aus der Ferne. Nach 14 Jahren besucht sie Kenia erneut, anlässlich der Dreharbeiten zum Film „Blaue Masai“ basierend auf ihrem Buch.

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