Under the Eye of the Big Bird: A Novel

"The unexpected! This book is about nothing less than the very future of humanity. It is a feat of the imagination and a great translation. There is just so much anxiety in our post-pandemic world. We had to get used to thinking of ourselves as not just communities or nations but as an entire species. But will we ever manage to do so, really? This novel is about the end of humanity as we know it. But it is full of hope, at the same time. Absolutely. Think about how many readers were terrified by the opening of The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Think about how we still use terms invented by George Orwell in his Nineteen Eighty-Four . Some of the best writers in English—like Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan –have shifted to writing speculative fiction. Because the unimaginable and the unprecedented keeps happening, we keep turning to the speculative."