« Mi Ántonia» (1918) es una visión tan fidedigna como generosa de la América de los pioneros. Basada en recuerdos personales de la autora, es además una gran novela sobre la memoria y sus procesos, recreados y estilizados con la magistral técnica y sensibilidad de Willa Cather.--casadellibro.com

Dalva a Plains Indian returns to her home on the plains of Nebraska, accompanied by her boyfriend, Michael, a historian. Through her great grandfather's journals, which span the years of the civil war to Wounded Knee in 1890, she searches for the son given up for adoption when she was a teenager, while delving into the secrets in the journal.

Acclaimed for her 1928 novel "A Lantern in Her Hand," Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, "Spring Came on Forever," a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head. The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle...

Nebraska, early nineties: Sheridan Grant lives with her adoptive family on a farm surrounded by corn fields. She suffers from the monotony of farm life and the strict regime of her adoptive mother, who prohibits the highly musical Sheridan from playing the piano. Luckily, there are the farm workers, Brandon, the rodeo rider Nick and artist Christopher. She also discovers the diary of the mysterious Carolyn. But then one Halloween night something terrible...