Under The Eye of The Big Bird

川上弘美

Original title: 大きな鳥にさらわれないよう

earliest edition we have, 2016 Counterpoint Press, 2024

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 t...

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This book in English

Asa Yoneda 2 printings we hold · 2025 · Granta Books

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird edition · 2025 · Granta Books · 288 pages · 9781803512358
Under The Eye of The Big Bird ebook · 2025 · Granta · 9781803512372
Under the Eye of the Big Bird edition · 2024 · Counterpoint Press · 9781593766115
大きな鳥にさらわれないよう edition · 2016 · 340 pages · 9784062199650

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