The White Masai (35 page)
Authors: Corinne Hofmann
Corinne Hofmann, 46, lives in a villa on Lake Lugano with her teenage daughter.
Back from Africa
, the sequel to
The White Masai,
and
Reunion in Barsaloi,
about her return to Kenya where husband and wife are reunited after 14 years, are still riding high on the bestseller lists and the film,
The White Masai,
was seen by more than one million people when first screened in Germany last September. For more information please visit www.massai.ch
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This travelogue is based on the author’s remarkable experiences in remote Anatolia in the 1960s, when she spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family. Grissmann depicts a people on the cusp of change – with an outsider’s eye and an insider’s sympathy and compassion, whether she is present at the birth of a child, attending a local festival or describing the lives and timeless rituals, the foods and smells of a rural community about to be altered forever.
‘It is a measure of her skills as a writer that she captures the year with such remarkable clarity, in a narrative packed with detail of place and insights… she has created a rare and touching view of Turkey that seems now to have disappeared’ – Anthony Sattin,
Sunday Times
‘More than anything I have read, it captures the hum of everyday life in an Anatolian village, the almost tangible good cheer that rises out of their community. It is no longer possible to travel as she did in those years, never planning, just letting things unfold, and so often discovering little paradises no foreigner had ever seen before’ – Maureen Freely,
Cornucopia
‘Extremely moving. Grissmann captures life in Anatolia with stark honesty and compassion’ – Paul Bowles
First published in the United Kingdon in 2005
by Arcadia Books, 15–16 Nassau Street, London, W1W 7AB
This ebook edition first published in 2011
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Originally published in German by A1 Verlag, Munich as
Die Weiße Massai
Copyright © Corinne Hofmann 1999
English language translation copyright © Peter Millar 2005
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ISBN 978–1–90812–919–2