Meelis Friedenthal

This novel, Golden Age (Kuldne aeg), is a dystopia that is set after an unspecified global catastrophe in which the (remaining) people struggle and try to organize their life again.

"[2] Another reviewer drew the comparison to George Orwell and found the novel "so depressive that [he] had to put it aside a few times.

It was praised as a work with powerful language that "carries on the best traditions of the Estonian historical novel".

"[6] The latter is also used against witchcraft, which is another topic in the book that takes place at a time when the last witch trials were conducted in Estonia and Sweden.

On the threshold of the Enlightenment there is still the fight against the dark - embodied by witchcraft and illustrated by a (historically documented) famine due to poor harvests and constant bad weather.

"[8] The novel has been translated into Albanian (2017), Bulgarian (2018), Danish (2018), English (2017), Dutch (2015), Italian (2015), Croatian (2018), Latvian (2015), Lithuanian (2020), Macedonian (2018), Norwegian (2016), Serbian (2018), Czech (2016), and Hungarian (2016).