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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.

Africa, my passion
Die Geschichte der weißen Massai
Dziewczyna z szyja̜ żyrafy
Příběhy bílé Masajky
Back from Africa
Reunion in Barsaloi

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  1. 1

    The White Masai

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.5(5963)Add rating

    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 Masai
  2. 2

    Back from Africa

    • 180 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
    3.4(1088)Add rating

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

    Back from Africa
  3. 3

    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 Barsaloi
  4. 4

    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 passion
  • Příběhy bílé Masajky

    • 904 pages
    • 32 hours of reading
    4.3(564)Add rating

    Na první pohled se mladá Corinne hluboce zamiluje do urostlého masajského válečníka, opustí kvůli němu dosavadní způsob života v civilizované společnosti a bezhlavě se vrhá do pro ni neznámé keňské buše. V neuvěřitelně primitivních podmínkách si prožije ráj i peklo na zemi a sen o velké lásce se posléze změní v zápas o holé přežití. Nekončící dobrodružství přivede mladou ženu na pokraj duševních i fyzických sil a ocitá se zcela bez prostředků. Svůj boj však nakonec s dcerkou Napirai přece jen vyhrává. Po čtyřech strastiplných letech se s podlomeným zdravím vrací s dcerou do rodného Švýcarska a snaží se začít znovu. Na svou africkou rodinu přesto nikdy nezapomene a po čase ji i na dálku dál finančně podporuje. Do Keni se opět podívá až po 14 letech, u příležitosti natáčení filmu Bílá Masajka podle její knihy. Tři knihy v jednom: Bílá Masajka, Zpátky z Afriky a Shledání v Barsaloi.

    Příběhy bílé Masajky