After the Sun

By: Jonas Eika

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Synopsis: "Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism.…surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion." —Wall Street JournalFrom 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 Cancún&’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 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 of storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice.