Jonas Eika

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 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.

After the Sun

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Nach der Sonne

På en strand under Krebsens vendekreds vandrer unge drenge rundt og udfører services der er afledt af solen, mens de konspirerer om hvordan de kan løsrive sig fra dens magt. I København misser en IT-konsulent sit arbejdsmøde og lader sig i stedet forføre af en bleg, ung mand der indvier ham i derivathandlen, en spøgelsesøkonomi der har overtaget den finansielle styring. En gammel mand i sorg forelsker sig i en fremmed genstand i ørkenen; mens hans kone er til koncert i Las Vegas forsøger han at forene sig med den. I noget man kunne kalde London prøver tre mennesker på at være en familie, men presses af afhængighed, økonomi og det barn der er på vej. Vidende eller uvidende deltager de alle sammen i afviklingen af denne verden, i forberedelsen til den der skal komme.

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