{"product_id":"after-the-sun-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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615556403474,"sku":"9780593329122","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b02157d1-4c83-4a28-97c9-2abbd81e3fcf.jpg?v=1758102918","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/after-the-sun-9780593329122","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}