The End of the Ocean, Maja Lunde
The End of the Ocean, Maja Lunde
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The End of the Ocean
A Novel

Author: Maja Lunde

Narrator: Jane Copland, Jean Brassard

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/14/2020

Synopsis

From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.

In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by memories of the love of her life, whom she’ll meet again soon. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signe’s sailboat. As David and Lou discover Signe’s personal effects, her long ago journey becomes inexorably linked to their own. An evocative tale of the search for love and connection, The End of the Ocean is a profoundly moving father daughter story of survival and a clarion call for climate action.

About Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde is a Norwegian author and screenwriter. Lunde has written five books for children and young adults. She has also written scripts for Norwegian television, including for the children’s series Barnas supershow (“The Children’s Super Show”), the drama series Hjem(“Home”) and the comedy series Side om Side (“Side by Side”). THE HISTORY OF BEES was her first novel for adults. She lives with her husband and three children in Oslo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paige on January 03, 2020

Mostly, I was bored. There was good descriptive writing, but it lacked an engaging storyline. It covers the timely issue of climate change, but overall the story lacked a concrete direction and was tediously executed. The story is told in two time periods. Signe's narrative is told in 2017. Signe, a......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 07, 2023

We first meet Signe, it’s 2017 and this seventy-year-old Norwegian lady has come back to the village of her youth. She is tortured by her past, by her fractured relationship with her mother but more so by what has happened to this beautiful place where she once lived. For as long as anyone could rem......more

Goodreads review by Anne Goldschrift on January 01, 2019

3,5 Sterne. Okay, das Buch war auf jeden Fall nicht genau so spannend von der Thematik umgesetzt wie der erste Band, ABER Maja Lunde kann einfach schreiben. Es liest sich grossartig und obwohl es inhaltlich zwischendurch etwas dröge wurde und mich das Ende nicht ganz überzeugt hat, konnte ich es kau......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on December 21, 2019

In 2017, 70 year-old Signe returns to her home - the village of Ringfjorden, Norway. She has come with her life-long partner, her sailboat Blue, to avenge the glacier and the waterfalls of her home on the edge of the fjord. Signe became an environmentalist at an early age by the influence of her fat......more

Goodreads review by Alice on January 26, 2020

Really interesting themes, but drags a little bit.......more

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