»This is the story of the four years I spent living in the Kenyan bush. I obsessively pursued the great love of my life and went through heaven and hell. It was one big adventure, which forced me to the limits both physically and mentally, but for me it was also a fight for survival, which my daughter Napirai and I managed to win.«
...in Back From Africa, she describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles wth the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback. With her previous two books Hofmann has proved herself to be an acute observer and an effective storyteller, and her astonishing and compelling tale speaks for itself. (Arcadia Books)
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. (Arcadia Books)