Under the Eye of the Big Bird: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

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Hiromi Kawakami Asa Yoneda

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda

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English

Granta
04 February 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Future Society; Science Fiction

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.

By: Hiromi Kawakami
Translated by: Asa Yoneda
Imprint: Granta
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 293g
ISBN: 9781803512983
ISBN 10: 1803512989
Publication Date: 04 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Under the Eye of the Big Bird: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

'Expansive and inventive...The voices and narrators across these disparate tales are diverse and intriguing...Through a simple, direct prose style, Kawakami does a great job of getting under the skin of all her characters...unsettling, thought-provoking and utterly unique...Kawakami's style is playful and light among the poignancy and depth. Wonderful writing' - The Big Issue