Jonas Eika
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Fri 08.0518:00 - 19:30De Vooruit, GentDe Vooruit - Foyer Theaterzaal
Tickets Pay What You Can - Basic € 5,00 Pay What You Can - Standard € 8,00 Pay What You Can - Support € 11,00
'Open Heaven' by Jonas Eika is a genre-defying historical novel about shame, longing and everything
that is both difficult and beautiful about creating a shared life – something we
long for so much right now. On 8 May, Eika will discuss their book with Arno Van Vlierberghe.
It is 1233, and in a beguinage in Liège, five women have come together to live in a completely new way: unmarried, not as nuns, but as human beings. Whilst they struggle against persecution by the Catholic Church, one of the beguines, Ida, begins to have visions of the young Virgin Mary, an ambiguous Jesus and a choir of angels. Gradually, and against her will, Ida emerges as a prophet, who, despite everything, desperately tries to hold on to what she loves most.
About Jonas Eika
Jonas Eika is one of the most exciting Danish writers of the moment. Their collection of short stories ‘After the Sun’ has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2021, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, and has been translated into fifteen languages. One of the stories appeared in The New Yorker and was later awarded an O. Henry Prize. They live in Copenhagen.
‘Een briljant en magnifiek verhaal. Open hemel is een unieke roman in de nieuwe Deense literatuur: hoogst origineel, ambitieus, visionair en overlopend van literaire rijkdom.’ Kristeligt Dagblad ******
