Shadows On The Grass by Isak Dinesen
A lyrical collection of autobiographical sketches and short tales set in colonial East Africa, blending vivid descriptions of the landscape and animal life with intimate portraits of the people the narrator knew; the pieces move between anecdote and fable to explore memory, superstition, loss and compassion, and they dwell on the fragile, often melancholic interplay between colonial settlers and the local communities amid moments of beauty, danger and grace.
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- 1960
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