My Antonia

Resumen del libro

Of Antonia, the passionate heroine of Willa Cather's greatest novel, the narrator says that she left 'images in the mind that did not fade - that grew stronger with time'. The same could be said of the novel itself. On one level, it is a straighforward story, beautifully written, of the struggle for survival of a family of pioneers on the vast Nebraska plains.

On another, it encompasses history, the relationship ofhuman beings and the natural world, and the destiny of the individual - even as it lovingly and unsentimentally portrays a woman whose robust spirit and enduring warmth make her emblematic of what Cather most admired in the American people. "The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway." - Leon Edel.

Biografía del autor

Wilella Sibert Cather (Black Creek Valley, Virginia, 7 de diciembre de 1873 - Nueva York, 24 de abril de 1947), más conocida con el nombre de Willa Cather, fue una escritora estadounidense de novelas y de relatos. En 1923 ganó el Premio Pulitzer por Uno de los nuestros (1922), una novela ambientada en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Su obra maestra es Mi Ántonia (1918).