Under the Eye of the Big Bird : Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025Author: Kawakami, Hiromi Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 9 October 2025 by Granta Books in the United Kingdom. Paperback 288 pages 197 x 129 x 20 198g 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

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