She never gives her opinion about the troubles she is involved in, both with the local people and with the farm she just tells us what happened and how she dealt with it and this makes you experience that strange country more vividly because you are reading the conversations with the indigenous and you just feel as lost as the author must have felt there. The only thing missing in this book is just the narrator and author’s personal life. They organized expeditions into the wild and I was astonished when I discovered that a woman from Danish high society could hunt lions with her rifle as well as any man. She also talks about the visitors on the farm: people from every European country who went to that part of the world and couldn’t go back because they fell in love with Africa. People from two tribes, the Kikuyu and the Masai, worked for her in the coffee plantation and baroness Blixen (Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of baroness Karen Blixen) talks a lot about their different points of view about almost everything, so difficult but so necessary to understand for Europeans if they wanted to make things work and succeed there on the farms. In the book, the author narrates her experience on her farm in Kenya, especially the issues that came from living together with the local people.
I haven’t watched the film, but I know it is a love story, and the book is included in collections of romantic novels year after year, so I was really surprised when I realized that Out of Africa was very far from the story that I had expected. I have always had the idea that this book was a love story between two Europeans who move to Africa.
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