by Tania Blixen · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499222221
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«Jenseits von Afrika» is the memoir by Tania Blixen, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (392 pages, in German).
The book recounts Tania Blixen's experiences in the British colony of Kenya, where she ran a coffee plantation from 1914. It portrays African nature, the customs of its inhabitants, and encounters with Kamante, a Kikuyu boy she trains as a cook, and Denys Finch-Hatton. The edition is based on the Danish version of the work.
Original work from 1937; this German edition is from 1999. Original title: Out of Africa. Translation by Rudolf von Scholtz, with an epilogue by Jürg Glauser; number 22222 in the rororo collection.
For readers of memoirs and twentieth-century classics, with an interest in colonial Africa and the work of Tania Blixen.
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
