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Lovely, nostalgic novel about a Bohemian immigrant, Antonia, and the Nebraska prairie where she lived. There was not a lot of action or plot, but the characters were well-imagined and the setting beautifully described. A few gems I liked:
"Of course it means you are going away from us for good ... But that doesn't mean I'll lose you. Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult ...more
"Of course it means you are going away from us for good ... But that doesn't mean I'll lose you. Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult ...more
"She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true. I had not been mistaken. She was a battered woman now, not a lovely girl; but she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one’s breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting ...more
I appreciated reading about the arrival of immigrants to Nebraska and their trials and tribulations especially as it concerned the 2nd generation.
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