The story covers the time period of seventeen years that the author had spent in Kenya. She had a coffee plantation there. The present memoir is a kind of lyrical meditation on the life that the author had spent in Kenya. The memoir also tells in great detail about the people who influenced her life while she was living there.The book describes the last decades of the British Empire in their colony in Africa. The book was first written in English. The author then rewrote it in Danish. Some versions of the memoir are published under the author's pen name, Isak Dinesen.
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