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After the sun / Jonas Eika ; translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg.

by Eika, Jonas, 1991-

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Riverhead Books, 2021.

9780593329108 (hc.)

Efter solen. English

1st English-language ed.

198 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published in Danish as Efter Solen by Basilisk in 2018.

Alvin -- Bad Mexican dog -- Rachel, Nevada -- Me, Rory and Aurora -- Bad Mexican dog.

"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 onto 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"--From publisher.

Danish fiction -- Translations into English.

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