Corinne Hofmann

The White Masai

The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his mother, and spends four years in his Kenyan village. Slowly but surely, the dream starts to crumble, and she hatches a plan to return home with her daughter, a baby born of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. Compulsively readable, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.

My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure

Die grosse Liebe in einer fremden Welt - die Schweizerin Corinne Hofmann hat gegen jede Vernunft alle Brücken hinter sich abgebrochen, um den Mann ihres Lebens heiraten zu können - den Massai-Krieger Lketinga. Vier Jahre lebte sie mit ihm im afrikanischen Busch und erfuhr dabei Himmel und Hölle zugleich.

Die weisse Massai

Back from Africa

Recounts Corinne Hoffmann's return to Switzerland and the difficulties she faced. This memoir details how she built a new life for herself and her daughter while overcoming all obstacles with the same courage and optimism she employed in her life in the Kenyan outback.

In a sequel to her international bestseller The White Masai, Corinne Hofmann continues her personal account of a white European woman in love with a Masai tribesman in remote Kenya. Fourteen years after fleeing with her baby daughter, Corinne returned to Kenya in the summer of 2004 to reunite with Lketinga and his family in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all who remembered her—Lktinga, who still thought of her as his number one wife; his brother James, now a schoolteacher; and especially Lketinga's mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before.

Reunion in Barsaloi

De blanke Masai

Una joven suiza, en viaje a Kenia, se enamora de un muchacho masai. Renuncia a lo que hasta entonces había sido su vida y decide vivir en Kenia en condiciones miserables, en una cabaña, con la gente de una tribu masai con la que, además, no se puede comun

La masai blanca

Corinne Hofmann describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles, with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback.

Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', by his brother, James, now a schoolteacher and especially by Lketinga's mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away, and once again bringing to life the atmosphere and characters in the Masai village.

Corinne Hofmann fell in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moved into a tiny shack with him and his mother, and spent four years there. Slowly the dream crumbled, and she fled back home with her baby daughter. This is her story.

Una donna bianca, Corinne - una giovane del tutto 'integrata' nella società - decide di trascorrere tre settimane di vacanza nel Kenya. Ma l'incontro con Lketinga, un guerriero masai, cambierà la sua vita per sempre. Per un amore così si può stravolgere la propria vita

La Masai bianca

'Lketinga zet zijn krabbeltje op het papier en zegt: 'I don't know if I see you and Napirai again!' Dan springt hij uit de bus, en we rijden weg. Nu rollen de tranen over mijn wangen.' Zo eindigde De blanke Masai van Corinne Hofmann, de wereldwijde besteller waarin zij haar leven in Kenia als bruid van de Samburu-krijger Lketinga beschreef. Na haar terugkeer uit Afrika besluit Corinne contact te houden met haar Afrikaanse familie door middel van brieven en financiële steun. Ondertussen probeert ze haar ervaringen in Afrika te verwerken en haar bestaan in Europa weer op te pakken, maar na haar lange afwezigheid en het leven in een volstrekt andere cultuur valt haar dat zwaar. Toch lukt het Corinne met dezelfde moed en kracht waarmee ze in Kenia een bestaan opbouwde, ook weer aan het westerse leven te wennen. Terug uit Afrika is een openhartig portret van een vrouw die zelfs na de bittere afloop van haar leven in Afrika blijft verlangen naar dit ondoorgrondelijke continent.

Terug uit Afrika

Waris Dirie

Cathleen Miller

Kuki Gallmann

Afrikaanse nachten

Een jonge Zwitserse vrouw verhaalt over haar leven als echtgenote van een Masai krijger.

De blanke masai / druk 1

Willem Adriaan Scherpenisse

In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, they travel to Nairobi together for the first time to discover Napirai s roots and finally meet her father and half-siblings. Africa, My Passion is a poignant, touching and exciting story about one woman's love affair with a unique man, which led to a lifelong obsession with Africa. Moving, vividly recounted, eye-opening and, above all, filled with passionate hope and unparalleled detail, this is an extraordinary sequel to a bestselling series of memoirs.

Corinne Hofmann

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