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020			_a9781803512983
082			_a895.636 _bKAW
100			_aKawakami, Hiromi
245			_aUnder the eye of the big bird : a novel
260			_bGranta Books, _c2025. _aLondon :
300			_a278 p.; _c22 cm.
365			_b899.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aTranslated from the Japanese.
520			_aIn 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 Bird presents an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know i
650			_aEvolution Fiction
650			_aHumanity
650			_aScience
650			_aTribes
700			_aYoneda, Asa _etr.
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