Book Description
"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out of Africa (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world."--Bruce Allen, Christian Science Monitor

"Letters from Africa is literary gold, 24 karat."--Alden Whitman, Boston Globe




Language Notes
Text: English, Danish (translation)

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction...made her an international success and a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature..._these letters+ contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out Of Africa.

FROM THE CRITICS

Bruce Allen

"Here's a richly biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction...made her an international success in a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature....(These letters) contain the raw material that was later transformed into a classic memoir 'Out of Africa' (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitative analyst of a strange new world." -- Christian Science Monitor

Alden Whitman