In English
International Booker 2025 · Shortlist
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
大きな鳥にさらわれないよう · Ōkina tori ni sarawarenai yō
Hiromi Kawakami · 58 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Speculative
Translated by Asa Yoneda
AI-generated summary:Far in the future, with humankind close to dying out, people live in small separate groups, hoping that unions between groups will produce children with new genes, humans able to evolve.