After the sun
From a major new international voice, mesmerizing, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world. Under CancĂșn'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 onto our newest realities, haunting the margins of a globalized 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--"as though the worlds he describes are being viewed through an ultraviolet filter," in one Danish reviewer's words--he has invented new modes storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice
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Short stories. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780593329108
- ISBN: 0593329104
- Physical Description 198 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in Danish as Efter Solen by Basilisk in 2018. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Alvin -- Bad Mexican dog -- Rachel, Nevada -- Me, Rory and Aurora -- Bad Mexican dog. |
Language Note: | Translated from the Danish |