Isak Dinesen:The Life of Karen Blixen, Storyteller by Judith Thurman

Isak Dinesen:The Life of Karen Blixen, Storyteller

Judith Thurman

557 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Her chilhood was coloured by her father's unexplained suicide, her marriage was to Baron Bror von Blixen-not his twin, Hans, who she loved. Their years on the Kanyan coffee-farm, remembered in "Out of Africa", ended in bankruptcy, divorce and her ...

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