After the Sun
Translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg.
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- Paperback published on 24/08/2021
- Page count: 206 pages
- ISBN: 9781999992859
Quick take
Short fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world.
Synopsis
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.
About the author
ONAS EIKA (b. 1991) is one of Denmark’s most exciting writers. Their debut novel, Marie House Warehouse, was awarded the Bodil & Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize for emerging Danish writers in 2016. In 2023, After the Sun was awarded the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, adding to its long list of accolades that also includes winning the Nordic Council Literature Prize and a nomination for the International Booker Prize. Eika lives in Copenhagen.
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