Reunion in Barsaloi Paperback – February 18, 2025

Such a riveting nostalgic return to her former life. It took courage for the author to do this. I felt that this return was a “must-do” for her so that she could reconcile her former life with the life she is currently living.

To be able to return to Kenya 14 years later is a miracle. It was very well written and brought back all the wonder of her first book..White Masai. Now I am off to find the movie 16 years after it was filmed.

Corinne's first book is so fascinating covering 4 years in Africa. The reunion is a book based on 2 weeks so a bit bland, and padded out. I guess it gives closure to the first book, for those readers that need to know.

Written with heart. My only wish is that Ms. Hofmann could have taken her Masai husband with her to Europe at one point - if only to see what the other world is like. I lived in Kenya back in the 70's and know what she must have gone through living at the manyatta and I congratulate her on sticking it out as long as she did. As well, I can easily see how she would have been fascinated by this particular group of people. Nevertheless, some things are not always meant to be forever - even when there is something so precious as a child between two people of such different cultures.

After reading the first book, “ The White Masaii “ I really enjoyed this more. Translation is mediocre, but easy to figure out what Corinne is saying. Much insight provided. Spoiler Alert: why didn’t Ms. Hofmann pay a Swahili/ Maa/ English translator second time around?

Everything I expected it to be . Well written with passion. This is one vey strong lady. I am glad she went back and wrote about her return .

This book is a great ending to the tale of Corinne who described her African life in 'The white Masai', followed by her tale of return to Switzerland and finally finished with this reunion with her African family. This book needs to be read after the two earlier parts as it gives an account of the come back to the life in Africa she had lived some fifteen years earlier.

Hofmann's last book to date seems to be just a filler - hardly anything to say. She dragged the story of her revisiting - what she calls "her family" through endless repetitions and descriptions of facts not at all connected to the subject, like her alpine expedition to Tanzania, under the pretext that she longed for Africa. She goes on and on to even describe the people she met on this trip - totally irrelevant to the topic. She definitely squeezed her 2 - 3 years Kenyan adventure to the last drop. Or is it the last drop? I bet we will have a fourth volume, when she will return to Kenya with her daughter.Although I read her first two books with much interest, I would say that this interest was mainly due to her unimaginable folly and to finding out more about the Massai customs. How can one sensible 26-year old woman, from Switzerland - not some poor village in Albania, or Haiti, or Honduras, go willingly to live 3 years in a mud-hut, without washing for weeks, without medical assistance, without food, in a primitive environment where women are cruelly mutilated; cannot talk to their men; are married off as children and not allowed to see a doctor? Her husband did not provide for her, she had to spend her own money, work hard and in the end, she became their only source of sustenance. Mind you all this in the name of love! What love? She saw some exotic, handsome Massai on a boat and wow, he becomes the love of her life?! Never mind he could not speak English, he could not write, and moreover, was a lousy lover! If Hoffmann has some money left from the publishing of these books - I suggest she looks for a good therapist. Her adventure proved to be monetarily profitable, but still, she should find out what made her do it and understand her folly.