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The White Masai by: Corinne Hofmann List Price: CDN$ 32.50 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 20.48 You Save: CDN$12.02 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8965 EAN: 9780061131523 ISBN: 0061131520 Label: Harper Collins Canada Manufacturer: Harper Collins Canada Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: September 28, 2006 Publisher: Harper Collins Canada Studio: Harper Collins Canada Sales Rank: 136373 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - mercantilism at its bestabsolutely worst case of exploitation i can imagine. obviously everything is for sale to the author, especially her family (for her last book where she goes and visits her former husband and his family she takes with her a book editor and a film crew!). It's just so easy to exploit the topic being a white woman from Europe and writing about your life and experiences among people of a completely different background and culture. Who are the European readers going to relate to? And what have the 5 star reviewers learnt from the book - that cultures are different, that educational backgrounds are important in relationships? Just makes me wonder was it the case of hopeless love or carefully executed scenario for making money - as we have now been ... Read More: Rating:  - "No problem, Corinne!"Holiday infatuations are not unusual during visits into far away and "exotic" lands. Unlike their usually temporary nature, this dramatic love story between a Swiss business woman and a Masai Warrior leads the heroine-author on a voyage of discovery that the reader is privileged to share. Corinne Hoffmann's personal memoir of the years with the "love of her life", is an absorbing read - at some stages the account is almost too amazing to be true. Hoffmann writes with honesty and passion about her love for the man, the people she lives with and the land she discovers and increasingly calls "home". Having fallen for the beautiful Lketinga, during a holiday, Corinne decides to move to Kenya to start her life there with him. She sells ... Read More: Rating: - White MasaiThis book changed my life. It tells the story of Corinne, a young German woman who gives up a comfortable life and moves to Kenya to marry a Masai Warrior and live in a Manyatta (mud hut). Here she deals with the hardships of disease and beurcratic nightmares. In a country that treats it's women like animals and property, she is strong, beleiving that love wil concure all. It is fast moving and reads like a constant flow of thoughts. I couldn't put it down. Corinne Hoffman is an inspiration. The White Masai is a great love story and a tragic drama, one that will mean something to me forever. |
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