Pioneros

Por Willa Cather

Situada en una pequeña localidad de Nebraska a finales del siglo XIX, Pioneros (1913) relata una historia de inmigración y supervivencia cuya figura central es Alexandra, una valiente joven que, a la muerte de su padre, se hace cargo de la familia y que, con su tesón, inteligencia y trabajo, consigue sacar adelante sus tierras desafiando las convenciones sociales sobre el papel de la mujer.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Willa Cather
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 26 may 2016
• ISBN: 9786050446579

Willa Cather

Born in 1873, Willa Cather was raised in Virginia and Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska she established herself as a theatre critic, journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh whilst also writing short stories and poems. She then moved to New York where she took a job as an investigative journalist before becoming a full-time writer. Cather enjoyed great literary success and won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours. She’s now best known for her Prairie trilogy: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. She travelled extensively and died in New York in 1947.