by Karen Blixen · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420443553
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«Memorias de África» is the autobiography of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), published by Alfaguara in hardcover (401 pages, in Spanish).
A memoir of Karen Blixen's years in Kenya (1914-1931), where she runs a coffee plantation near Nairobi and forms a relationship with the hunter Denys Finch-Hatton. Written after losing the farm and returning to Denmark, the book portrays the African landscape, life with the local population, and the author's development as a storyteller.
The original title of the work is Out of Africa. The translation is by Bárbara McShane and Javier Alfaya. It belongs to Alfaguara's Literaturas collection.
Of interest to readers of memoirs and travel literature, and to those wishing to approach the European experience in East Africa in the first third of the twentieth century.
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.
