At first glance, After the Sun seems like a dazzling and inventive work of fiction that explores the delicate places where human expectations seep through the cracks of an exploding world. By combining stunning beauty and strangeness and balancing hyperrealism and fantasy, Danish author Jonas Ek has invented new ways of storytelling in an age where old methods are no longer sufficient to convey stories “as if the worlds he describes are seen through an ultraviolet filter,” as one Danish critic put it.
In the five stories that make up After the Sun, the world expands and shrinks at the same time, as each story opens a door and a series of gateways that invite new truths. Jonas Ek's fictional world seems like a collection of dreams, where anything can happen. Fantasy and excessive reality balance each other on a knife edge, where there is astonishing beauty in strangeness.
