Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Hiromi Kawakami author Asa Yoneda translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Granta Books
Publishing:16th Jan '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 16th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An inventive and immersive novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction - from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.
An inventive and immersive speculative novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction - from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings - but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world. Unfolding over geological eons, Under the Eye of the Big Bird is at once an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it and a meditation on the qualities that, for better and worse, make us human.
A sad but beautiful depiction of a perishing world -- Banana Yoshimoto
ISBN: 9781803512358
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
288 pages