After the Sun
After the Sun
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Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2019, the Michael Strunge Prize, the Montana Prize for Fiction, and the Blixen Literary Award From a major new international voice, mesmerising, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world
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After the Sun by Jonas Eika
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.
"Eika's prose flexes a light-footed, vigilant, and unpredictable animalism: it's practically pantheresqueAfter the Sun is an electrifying, utterly original read." - Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond; "Relentlessly thrilling. The sentences in these stories stretch past the limits of the ordinary to the luridly extraordinary, and some moments feel as if they are breaking through to the sublime." - New York Times Book Review; "After the Sun confronts modernity and alienation in hypnotic prose... These stories are compelling, haunted, even radiant." - TLS
JONAS EIKA (b. 1991) is one of Denmark's most exciting writers. His debut novel, Marie House Warehouse, was awarded the Bodil & Jorgen Munch-Christensen Prize for emerging Danish writers in 2016. After the Sun was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2019, as well as the Michael Strunge Prize, the Montana Prize for Fiction, and the Blixen Literary Award. SHERILYN NICOLETTE HELLBERG has published translations of Johanne Bille, Tove Ditlevsen, and Ida Marie Hede. In 2018, she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for her translation of Caspar Eric's Nike.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781999992859 |
| ISBN 10 | 1999992857 |
| Title | After the Sun |
| Author | Jonas Eika |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lolli Editions |
| Year published | 2021-08-24 |
| Number of pages | 206 |
| Prizes | Winner of The Montana Prize for Fiction 2019, Winner of The Nordic Council Literature Prize 2019, Winner of The Michael Strunge Prize 2019, Commended for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022, Commended for International Booker Prize 2022 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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