| Description |
198 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in Danish as Efter Solen by Basilisk in 2018. |
| Contents |
Alvin -- Bad Mexican dog -- Rachel, Nevada -- Me, Rory and Aurora -- Bad Mexican dog. |
| Summary |
"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 storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Eika, Jonas, 1991- -- Translations into English.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Hellberg, Sherilyn Nicolette, translator.
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Eika, Jonas, 1991-
Alvin.
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Eika, Jonas, 1991-
Bad Mexican dog.
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Eika, Jonas, 1991-
Rachel, Nevada.
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Eika, Jonas, 1991-
Me, Rory and Aurora.
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| Added Title |
Efter solen. English.
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| ISBN |
9780593329108 (hardcover) |
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