Reviews

• “[B]rilliantly complex. /…/ Lunde delivers a perfect blend of gripping human stories, historical and scientific fact, and speculative elements. This standout should win her wider attention in the U.S.”

• “Each narrative suggests the unintended and often disastrous consequences of human interventions in nature. Seamlessly flowing between historical, travel, and dystopian fiction, this is another riveting, thrilling, and powerful installment from internationally renowned Lunde.”

• “Lunde captures the depth and range of human love in all forms—our capacity to care for species other than our own, our desire to connect with others, and how both these are so often thwarted by the external circumstances of trauma and war. Filled with haunting notions of interspecies kinship, the reverberations of kindness and care, and the innate drive to love and survive despite the odds, this book is one to savor.”

• “Heart-wrenchingly beautiful. /…/ The book is driven by an immense passion that shines through in the descriptions of the main characters. It is a truly uncompromising story that leaves behind a few drops of hope, even if they may be hard to see on a dark day.”

• “Bleak and extraordinarily gripping. /…/ Maja Lunde is an exceptional storyteller. In The Last Wild Horses, she once again demonstrates her flair—and her passion for highlighting the climate crisis. /…/A nerve-wracking novel that you devour – and keep thinking about long afterwards.”

• “Is it possible for a novel about the consequences of climate change to hold emotion and an interesting story? Yes it is.”

• “Moving and educational.”

• “In The Last Wild Horses [Lunde] masterfully weaves together various narrative threads into a cohesive whole. She achieves this with such elegance that the reader never loses track of the story.”

• “[T]old so vividly that you are right in the middle of it and the characters are also psychologically convincing.”

• “Maja Lunde tells a gripping, unsettling, and moving story about humans and animals, and the animal within humans.”

• “Absolutely captivating, frighteningly relevant.”

• “A novel about the responsibility we all have. Reading it makes one thing clear: We must act. Now!”

• “Maja Lunde has with The Last Wild Horse written her best novel on climate and environment. But those who expect clear and direct address should just polish their glasses and come along for the ride.”

• “Maja Lunde has perfected her successful formula in her new climate novel. /…/ The Last Wild Horse is the eeriest novel [Lunde] has written so far, but it is probably also the most hopeful.”

• “[Lunde’s] best novel to date.”

• “You should just let yourself be impressed by Lunde’s ability to create a surprising plot.”

• “The text vibrates with joy of life, the prose is playful and rich.”

• “The Last of the Wild Horses is a pure delight to read. /…/ Deeply moving. /…/ A driven, talented, storyteller.”

• “For some reason dystopias are more affecting when they’re set here in the Nordics. (…) In that vein, Maja Lunde’s new novel The Last Wild Horses gets under the skin as she portrays a small society along the Norwegian coastline, year 2064. /…/ What truly makes [Lunde’s] stories find their way down into the deep psyche is that she writes about a world very similar to ours, but one where parents merely remember a time when there was still food for the children left in the stores.”

• “An important novel about humanity’s constant strive to save nature.”

• “Lunde writes captivatingly and page-turner inducingly. /…/ It’s Eva’s story that stays with me. Here the characters feel both so personal and credible, despite living in a time we yet know so very little about.”

• “It hits me, as I diligently read the novel from cover to cover, that Lunde’s depiction of the future feels so incredibly present. /…/ If there’s any answer I take away from Lunde’s incredibly gripping novel, it’s this: In order to be constant, we have to keep moving.”

• “[Lunde] writes entertainingly, with wit, the milieus and the physical living conditions are potrayed with a detailed concreteness. /…/ [The] future is convincing in its eeriness, it’s dank smell tangible, the way it will be hard to see in the dark when everything is turned off. /…/ The constant and rapid alternation between the three tales then, now and after turns the individual fates into features of a much larger story, where nature is the protagonist.”

• “Despite it’s heavy theme the novel is empathically written, grounded in the everyday, and easy to take to heart. An important novel – and refreshingly free of lecturing.”

• “The Last Wild Horses is a thoroughly researched novel of ideas, that skilfully plays with stylistic levels. /…/ [I]t’s hard to shake the questions that The Last Wild Horses leave you with.”

• “Maja Lunde knows the art of awakening powerful emotional effects. /…/ Every time Lunde returns to the year 2064 it’s like coming home in the novel, despite the read being so anxiety-inducing I have to pause and breath.”

• “Maja Lunde’s novels are laments over the climate changes. She shows us an incredibly frightening, very near future. Not even Greta can say it clearer. ”

• “Some novels are eye-openers. The third installment in Maja Lunde’s climate quartet is definitely one of them. A beautiful, dark and incredibly heartrendering book.”

• “A powerful novel about humans and horses. About dedicating one’s life to the animals, about obsession. Equally obsessed I read the novel, almost in one go. I can’t help myself: it’s not I that devours the book, it’s the book that devours me.”