“Another powerful novel on the Hoem family. Reading the third books of Edvard Hoem’s epic family saga is like getting together with old friends again, and find out what’s new. Unfortunately A Land No One Has Seen is only 400 pages long. Thousands have followed the story about the Hoem family from the fantastic Haymaker in Heaven and the at least equally strong Your Brother on the Prairie – it’s a joy to read Hoem’s sensuous, sensitive prose”
VG, 5 out of 6 stars

“Always entertaining, but never superficial; moving and filled with grand emotions, but kept in tight literary reins. Edvard Hoem’s clear cut prose fits this slightly solemn story from a not too distant past like hand in glove.”
Dagsavisen

“Brilliant writing on the life of emigrants … Above all Hoem is a master when it comes to entering the heads of this handful of people in his own history. He brings us the pioneers’ daily struggle to create a new and better existence for themselves and their families, and their longing for everything they left behind.”
Adresseavisen

“[In] Edvard Hoem’s family saga of his own ancestors, where he strives to ‘write about their hopes and dreams, defeats and setbacks’, agriculture makes up the horizon. That gives the books a formidable view. Edvard Hoem’s family chronicle is modern world history, and it goes on. When Hoem writes about his ancestors from Romsdalen and their human longing for a country to live in, he also writes about the migrants of today”
Klassekampen

«Contemporary Norwegian literature is full of sedentary, introvert couch potatoes, who don’t know what’s up or down on a hayfork. In this respect, Hoem’s confident, precise portrayal of socially cooperative and manual work processes is a refreshing corrective … Hoem’s prose is vivid and good”
Aftenposten

“Hoem’s prose is beautiful and close to the time it describes. He explores his characters’ fates through old church books, letters, history and anecdotes – and a large portion of it is pure fiction”
Dagbladet

“A solid sequel … With great respect Hoem has described his family, given people who otherwise would have disappeared in history a fictional life between two covers. The value in this is that it could have been anybody … This could have been other pioneers who left their family in order to create something new – and this is precisely what makes A Land No One Has Seen a good novel”
Fædrelandsvennen, 5 out of 6 stars