{"product_id":"after-the-sun-isbn-9780593329122","title":"After the Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion.\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a major new international voice, mesmerizing, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun \u003c\/i\u003eopens 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.\u003cb\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e After the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“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. . . . an orgy of the unpredictable.” \u003cb\u003e–\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] rare. . . talent that corrals flawed characters and explosive politics into a sweeping, searing collection. . . . a collage that gives voice to the dread of our time.” \u003cb\u003e—Oprah Daily\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Bewitching . . .[and] scarily intimate. . . .What radiates from Eika’s gritty magical realism is ambient but potent: a grief so profound that it transfigures, a loneliness so abject that it fractures perception. . . . Dreamy, febrile and thoroughly twisted, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . a bold debut from an author who understands the generative capacity of fiction.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Confronts modernity and alienation in hypnotic prose, thrillingly translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg . . . . compelling, haunted, [and] radiant.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e –\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Urgent, deliriously discomforting . . . . Eika holds nothing back in his fiction, he goes into the tightest of spaces and most intimate and terrifying of moments in order to break through to places few have been before — or even imagined existing.” \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Refinery29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“Eika deftly exposes the absurdity and harm of class, capitalism, and global oppressive structures. . . . utterly refreshing.”\u003cb\u003e –\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Searingly beautiful. . . breathtaking in the truest sense. . . . [Eika’s] understanding of the alienation felt deep at the heart of so many, and the abstracted and byzantine nature of the systems undergirding our detached lives is unparalleled. But most of all. . . he’s able to realize the joy to be found, however fleetingly, in our shattered world.”\u003cb\u003e –\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The characters in these atmospheric, immersive stories are as arresting as the lives they lead. . . . [it] will leave you unsettled and mulling over our world's isolation and interconnectivity.”\u003cb\u003e –\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“Eika’s ability to combine foreboding with magic realism generates excitement in this English-language debut.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From a Danish wunderkind . . .mesmerizing . . .utterly brilliant . . .these strange stories catch like fishhooks into the reader's nervous system.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Surreal [and] globe-spanning . . . Eika’s fusing of the magic realist mode with the alienation of modernity makes for a winning formula.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Gripping. . . . The global reach of these stories underscores the universality of the alienation that these characters endure. And the surreal debris Eika evokes from the fallout of capitalism has its own resonance.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e –\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Political fictions aren't supposed to be this personal. Satires aren't supposed to be this heartbreaking. Surrealism isn't supposed to be this real. Giving a damn isn't supposed to be this fun. From slights of hand, to shocks to the heart, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is doing all the things you don't expect it to and leaving a big bold mark in what we call literature.\" \u003cb\u003e—Marlon James, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Leopard, Red Wolf \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMoon Witch, Spider King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How  does it feel to be a native of the digital era? What effect does late capitalism have upon our intimate lives? A lot of people instinctively sense that time and space feel different these days, but few people seem able to capture that feeling in prose. Jonas Eika manages it. \u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is an inventive and exciting book – a true original.” \u003cb\u003e—Zadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Striking literary craftsmanship in an experimental mix of shock-lit, sci-fi, dada and Joycean glints presented as loose time scenes that slide in and out like cards in the hands of the shuffler. By the end, this reader had the impression of having been drawn through a keyhole.”\u003cb\u003e —Annie Proulx, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarkskins \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Eika's prose flexes a light-footed, vigilant, and unpredictable animalism: it's practically pantheresque. \u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is an electrifying, utterly original read.” \u003cb\u003e—Claire-Louise Bennett, author of \u003ci\u003ePond \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCheckout 19\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Jonas Eika blew the doors and windows of my imagination open, and now there is a galaxy in my head and a supernova in my heart. \u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e vibrates with the aftershock of capitalism and reality flux. Its characters confront the world we've made as if they are facing off with ex-lovers who won't leave, caught at the instant before they will either flame on or flame out. Thrilling.”  —\u003cb\u003eLidia Yuknavitch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chronology of Water \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThrust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The young Danish author Jonas Eika completely destroys every safety net: his book \u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e has a combustible power in its longing for another world—and it expands the term ‘fiction.’ No other poet has exploded onto the scene like Eika in a long while.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e has surprised and enthralled the jury with its global perspective, its sensual and imaginative language, and its ability to speak about contemporary political challenges without the reader feeling in any way directed to a certain place. . . . There is a real sense of poetic magic. Reality opens into other possibilities; other dimensions. There is something wonderful and hopeful in it that reminds us how literature can do more than just mirror what we already know.” —\u003cb\u003eThe Jury of the Nordic Council Literature Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonas Eika\u003c\/b\u003e has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Nordic Council Literature Prize. His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Copenhagen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherilyn Nicolette Hellberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and a translator of Danish literature, most recently of Johanne Bille’s \u003ci\u003eElastic\u003c\/i\u003e and Ida Marie Hede’s \u003ci\u003eAdorable\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300166455525,"sku":"NP9780593329122","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593329122.jpg?v=1767721112","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/after-the-sun-isbn-9780593329122","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}