After the Sun

Under Cancun's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with an unearthly machine. After the Sun opens portals to our newest realities, haunting the margins of a globalised world that's both saturated with yearning and brutally transactional. Infused with an irrepressible urgency, Eika's fiction seems to have conjured these far-flung characters and their encounters in a single breath. Juxtaposing startling beauty with grotesquery, balancing the hyperrealistic with the fantastical, he has invented new modes of storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice.

Summary

Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2019, the Michael Strunge Prize, the Montana Prize for Fiction, and the Blixen Literary AwardFrom a major new international voice, mesmerising, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Eika
• Assisted by: Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (Translation), Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (Translation)
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.2021
• EAN: 9781999992859
• ISBN: 978-1-9999928-5-9
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 200 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary