With irrepressible urgency, Eika’s astonishing fiction juxtaposes startling beauty with grotesquery, and balances the hyper-realistic with the fantastical. Translated by Sherilyn Hellberg.

After the Sun opens portals to our newest realities, haunting the margins of a globalised world that’s both saturated with yearning and brutally transactional.

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.

Meanwhile, the collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. And in the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with an unearthly machine.

 

Longlisted
The 2022 International Booker Prize
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Jonas Eika

Jonas Eika

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After the Sun, his second book, has confirmed Jonas Eika as one of Denmark’s most exciting writers.
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Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg

Sherilyn Hellberg

About the Translator

Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg is a writer and literary translator.
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