After the Sun (Unabridged) After the Sun (Unabridged)

After the Sun (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

“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 Journal

From 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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
MC
Michael Crouch
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:21
hr min
RELEASED
2021
August 24
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
134.1
MB

Customer Reviews

mtcgti ,

Weird, yet fascinating

I finished the book mostly confused, but I can tell that is the point. It’s simultaneously dark and hopeful. Worth your time to read this.