My Ántonia (AmazonClassics Edition) -

Willa Cather

AmazonClassics

2018

146 páginas

4h 52m

ISBN-10: B0769WQ44Y

When high-powered New York attorney Jim Burden recollects his childhood on the Nebraska prairie, Ántonia Shimerda is at the heart of every memory.

Orphaned at age ten, Jim is traveling west to his grandparents’ home in Black Hawk when he first meets Ántonia, the daughter of a Bohemian family who settles on a neighboring farm. Through sunbaked summers and frigid winters, Ántonia bears the hardships of a young immigrant as she longs for a vanishing past. It is a profound nostalgia for a lost time that Jim now also holds dear as he recalls all that he left behind and that which he’ll never lose.

Set against a defining and reflecting midwestern landscape—melancholic, nurturing, and changeable—My Ántonia is a celebration of an enduring friendship and a moving tribute to the courage and resolve of pioneering immigrants.

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Revised edition: Previously published as My Ántonia, this edition of My Ántonia (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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5 (Perfeito)

Pense em James Stewart...

..E em todos os filmes que Stewart estrelou com montanhas, cidadezinhas, vales, famílias grandes, dificuldades financeiras, luta com a terra e a natureza inóspita, e muito, muito amor entre pais e filhos, entre avós e netos, entre irmãos...
Imaginou? "Minha Ántonia" é tudo isso e mais ainda. Poética e realista, Willa Cather capta os imigrantes pioneiros do século XIX nos Estados Unidos com doçura, pés no chão, beleza e intenso lirismo. Uma rara escritora que me encantou ao descrever imagens da natureza (outro expert nisto era D.H. Lawrence). Um primor. Uma história de luta e grandeza das pessoas simples, o sal da terra.