Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Random House LLC US
Cheaper in another edition — £8.99 at LoveReading
Under the Eye of the Big Bird · See that edition →
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEFrom one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of reproduction, ecology, evolution, artificial intelligence, communal life, creation, love, and the future of humanityIn 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 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 fourteen interconnected episodes spanning geological eons, at once technical and pastoral,...