Hiromi Kawakami

Broschiertes Buch

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

Übersetzer: Yoneda, Asa

Beschreibung

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes under the care of Mothers. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings. An astonishing novel about the end of our species as we know it and a meditation on the qualities that, for better and worse, make us human.

Autor

HIROMI KAWAKAMI was born in Tokyo in 1958. In 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for Strange Weather in Tokyo, which became an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize. Her other fiction in translation includes The Nakano Thrift Shop, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino, People from My Neighbourhood, and The Third Love. Kawakami has contributed to editions of Granta in both the UK and Japan and is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists. ASA YONEDA is the translator of books including Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya, The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto, and Idol, Burning by Rin Usami, as well as stories by Natsuko Kuroda, Atsushi Nakajima, and (with David Boyd) Midori Osaki.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781803512365
• ISBN-10: 1803512369
• Artikelnr.: 73214010