EAN: 9780593329122

AFTER THE SUN - JONAS EIKA KARTONIERT (TB)

Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable. New York Times Book Review 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.

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