# My Ántonia

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

- Genres: [Frontieră și pionieri](https://localbooks.app/genres/westerns/frontier-and-pioneer), [Romane de formare](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/coming-of-age)
- Set in: [Black Hawk, Nebraska, Statele Unite ale Americii](https://localbooks.app/places/us/nebraska/black-hawk) (fictional); [Red Cloud, Nebraska, Statele Unite ale Americii](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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