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“corinne hofmann”

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  • Back from Africa

    by Corinne Hofmann ...
    Translated by Peter Millar ...
    Corinne Hofmann 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, with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Reunion in Barsaloi

    by Corinne Hofmann ...
    Translated by Peter Millar ...
    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', ... Read more

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