Jonas Eika has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Nordic Council Literature Prize. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker. He lives in Copenhagen.

Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg is a writer and a translator of Danish literature, most recently of Johanne Bille’s Elastic and Ida Marie Hede’s Adorable.

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, a

slew 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.