Johanne Lykke Holm: Rote Sonne

India and Kallas live in a residential complex in a stiflingly hot and grimy city. She is the moon, he is the sun, and together they are happy. Until Desma, a childhood friend of Kallas, and her boyfriend Lafayette invite them to their big house by the sea. An oppressive feeling of passivity increasingly overcomes the couples, who talk about the ghosts of the dark past that still haunt them. Then, like an omen, three children show up, unaccompanied and with nowhere to go. So they take them in – for a few days, which turn into weeks. Johanne Lykke Holm, an up-and-coming Danish novelist, tells a melodramatic fairy tale of lost children, adults unable to meet their needs, and cosmic twists of fate that weren’t meant to be. Meanwhile, a fire breaks out nearby, and the sun turns red.

Book launch in association with AKI-Verlag.