Letters from africa 1914-1931

Isak Dinesen

Published by Pocador, softcover, illustrated

Letters from Africa is the raw material Isak Dinesen was to transmute into her later works. They introduce us to someone who is never mentioned in her memoirs, the young, vulnerable Karen Blixen — the miseries of her failed marriage, her illness, the financial collapse of her coffee plantation, the death of her lover, and, shining through all her trials, her irrepressible spirit.