Lolli Editions After the Sun by Jonas Eika

After the Sun by Jonas Eika, published by Lolli Editions, is an inventive work of fiction that traces the moments where human longing breaks through a world under strain. Moving across multiple locations, it unfolds as a sequence of encounters shaped by desire, speculation, addiction and grief, with each scene turning towards a different edge of contemporary life.

Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy becomes a canvas for tourists’ desires while glimpsing the world’s underbelly. In Copenhagen, an IT consultant is pulled into a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. In London, the collapse of a love triangle gives way to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man attempts to merge with an unearthly machine. The book is described as balancing the hyperreal with the fantastical, juxtaposing startling beauty with grotesquery, and viewing its worlds as though through an ultraviolet filter.

Key details

• Title: After the Sun
• Author: Jonas Eika
• Published by Lolli Editions

Synopsis

After the Sun opens onto new realities at the margins of a globalised world described as saturated with yearning and brutally transactional. Its far-flung characters and encounters are presented with urgency, shifting between beauty and grotesquery, and between the hyperreal and the fantastical.

The description includes praise from Annie Proulx, highlighting “striking literary craftsmanship” and an experimental mix of styles, with scenes that “slide in and out” and leave the impression of being “drawn through a keyhole”.

Rackhams Reference : FT79K7SLDD