Corinne Hofmann Libri

Un memorabile viaggio alle radici del corpo e dell'anima, una grande storia d'amore Una vacanza in Africa. Uno scambio di sguardi. Due universi che si incontrano. La vita di una donna che cambia per sempre Durante una vacanza in Kenya Corinne Hofmann è folgorata dallo sguardo di un guerriero masai, Lketinga, e dalla civiltà che incarna. Senza ripensamenti, la giovane donna si traferisce dalla Svizzera in quella che per quattro anni sarà la sua nuova patria. Guidata dall'ostinata potenza del suo amore, affrontando mille difficoltà si sposa, ha una figlia, Napirai. Investe tutta la sua intraprendenza occidentale nella costruzione di un sogno, per scoprire, infine, che neanche il più puro dei sentimenti può colmare l'abissale divario che separa due mondi e due culture.

In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, and traveling Kenya together for the first time, they discover Napirai's roots and finally meet her father and half-siblings. Hofmann then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. "Narrated with genuine affection for all things African."--Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2014

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.

After the phenomenal success of The White Masai and Reunion In Barsaloi, Bliss Books is delighted to publish their equally astonishing.

Tři knihy v jednom - Bílá Masajka, Zpátky v Africe a Shledání v Barsaloi. Na první pohled se mladá Corinne hluboce zamiluje do urostlého masajského náčelníka, opustí kvůli němu dosavadní způsob života v civilizované společnosti a bezhlavě se vrhá do pro ni neznámé keňské buše. V neuvěřitelně primitivních podmínkách si prožije ráj i peklo na zemi a sen o velké lásce se posléze změní v zápas o holé přežití. Nekončící dobrodružství přivede mladou ženu na pokraj duševních i fyzických sil a ocitá se zcela bez prostředků. Svůj boj však nakonec s dcerkou Napirai přece jen vyhrává. Po čtyřech strastiplných letech se s podlomených zdravím vrací s dcerou do rodného Švýcarska a snaží se začít znovu. Na svou africkou rodinu však přesto nikdy nezapomene a po čase ji na dálku dál finančně podporuje. Do Keni se opět podívá až po 14 letech, u příležitosti natáčení filmu Bílá Masajka.