num_pages: 320
description: The four-million-copy international bestseller of the incredible love story between a European woman and an African warrior.The White Masai combines adventure and the pursuit of passion in a page-turning story of two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds. Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa on Kenya's glamorous coast. Despite language and cultural barriers, they embark on an impossible love affair. Corinne uproots her life to move to Africa—not the romantic Africa of popular culture, but the Africa of the Masai, in the middle of the isolated bush, where five-foot-tall huts made from cow dung serve as homes. Undaunted by wild animals, hunger, and bouts with tropical diseases, she tries to forge a life with Lketinga. But slowly the dream starts to crumble when she can no longer ignore the chasm between their two vastly different cultures.A story that taps into our universal belief in the power of love, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a compulsively good read.
language: English
title: The White Masai
titlecomplete: The White Masai
characters: Corinne Hofmann
genres: Biography, Africa, Travel, Roman, German Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Kenya, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 8857
places: Nairobi, Mombasa, Barsaloi, Maralal
series: The White Masai
publisher: Amistad