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 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 of storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice.Story Locale: Copenhagen, Cancun, London, Nevada.

ANOTHER EMERGING INTERNATIONAL STAR IN OUR FIRMAMENT: Like Olga Tokarczuk, Jonas Eika fits Riverhead's MO of finding and publishing breathtakingly original voices from all over the world. After the Sun has garnered ecstatic reviews in Denmark, aslew of awards, and translation deals in half a dozen languages, and has been excerpted in the New Yorker and Granta. This is a writer on a rise our publication will help make meteoric. It's the perfect moment to introduce him to American readers.A MOLD-BREAKER IN OUR MOLD: Eika's writing is unlike anything else out there, breaking molds and subverting every expectation. Media, booksellers, and readers will discover him with the same kind of excitement we sparked with Olga Tokarczuk's Flights and Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond. Like them, he is breaking trail for new kinds of fiction.URGENT, PROVOCATIVE VOICE: Without a shred of didacticism, the characters and worlds Eika conjures are nonetheless profound commentaries on our time of rampant inequality, ecological peril, and nationalist responses to the resulting global flux-concerns made explicit in Eika's activism and his brave acceptance speech for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which went viral.A WRITER OF VIRTUOSIC RANGE: Both within the slender confines of After the Sun and beyond it, Eika displays exceptional range, from the hyperreal to the fantastical. His next book, which Riverhead will publish, is a novel set in a religious women's community in thirteenth-century Belgium.