# My Ántonia

by [Willa Cather](https://localbooks.app/authors/willa-cather)

- Genres: [חלוצים ומתיישבים במערב](https://localbooks.app/genres/westerns/frontier-and-pioneer), [רומן התבגרות](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/coming-of-age)
- Set in: [Black Hawk, נברסקה, ארצות הברית](https://localbooks.app/places/us/nebraska/black-hawk) (fictional); [Red Cloud, נברסקה, ארצות הברית](https://localbooks.app/places/us/nebraska/red-cloud)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1918
- Pages: 264

## Description

Jim Burden, an orphan sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, grows up alongside Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling through their first hard winters. Years later he tries to put into words what she meant to him.

## Where to buy

- [Open Library (ebook)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12791W)
- [Project Gutenberg (ebook)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=My%20%C3%81ntonia)

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