After the death of his parents, Jim was sent to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk Nebraska. There he befriended Ántonia, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. Years later, Jim, now a successful lawyer in New York, returns to his childhood home and Ántonia. Jim.s love for Ántonia has endured, much as she herself has endured tragic circumstances.
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“It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather’s My Ántonia by offering comment…Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature…with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we’ve just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves.”
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Amazon.com, editorial review