Hiromi Kawakami: Under the Eye of the Big Bird, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
- A Novel
- Translation:
- Asa Yoneda
- Publisher:
- Random House LLC US, 05/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781593768072
- Item number:
- 12283948
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Weight:
- 367 g
- Format:
- 209 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 20.5.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From 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 humanity
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 "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, mournful and utopic, Under the Eye of the Big Birdpresents an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it.
Biography (Hiromi Kawakami)
Hiromi Kawakami, 1958 in Tokio geboren, studierte Naturwissenschaften. Sie unterrichtete Biologie, bevor 1994 ihr erster Roman erschien. Ihre Bücher wurden mit zahlreichen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet. Hiromi Kawakami zählt zu den populärsten Schriftstellern Japans.
