The White Masai
By Corinne Hofmann
Maybe I was biased from the beginning. I told my self I wouldn’t like The White Masai and then I didn’t like it. It wasn’t the story I didn’t like, it was the main character – she was just so stupid.
As a fiction – it wouldn’t have been so bad, cheesy romance where love overcomes all (but not really). But as a “true story” it makes me want to scream with frustration. It took a lot of effort to see it through and I just kept thinking how many millions Corinne Hofmann must have made capitalizing on her “love story.” It’s insane.
To begin Corinne is on vacation in
There are a few trips between
She is unable to live like locals although she tries – can’t fill her roll in the society and ends up mooching off other people. She opens a store for a while. Then she starts getting really sick because in her attempt to be a “real Masai” she doesn’t take precautions for her decidedly not Masai body. She gets malaria and Hep C among others.
Eventually she has a baby and her husband begins to get insanely jealous and long story short she flies back to
The end.
The stupid part is – with some modifications she might have been able to make it work – but she completely ignored the advice of everyone. Also if she was so determined to be the “white Masai” she probably should have acted like a Masai woman and less like a European one – that may have helped her immensely.
Sure she was in love and everything she did was for that love. But, she was so naïve it was insane and then – in the end – she markets the whole thing.
This book – while an “interesting exotic tale of love and adventure” – left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
2 comments:
I read this book and my sentiments are nearly identical. I could not bring myself to sympathize with Corinne at all. She just seemed so needy and irrational. And that's from her perspective. I wonder how moody and jealous Lketinga would seem from an objective viewpoint.
I ended up feeling very sad for the husband...he did not ask her to come there...he may have loved her very much as he was seen to take alot of strife from her but why did she have to emasculate him so totally?? even in the "civilized world" no man would take a slap or screaming in their face nicely...very selfish woman in my opinion....but I can see the attraction on a purely physical level...the actor was absolutely stunning..Jacky Ido...I do't usually watch subtitled movies
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