Join us for our November Contemporary Fiction Book Club. We’ll be discussing Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
The Book Club will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 13th November at Next Chapter Books.
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 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 geological eons, Under the Eye of the Big Bird is at once an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it and a meditation on the qualities that, for better and worse, make us human.
The book club will take place at Next Chapter Books and run for approximately an hour and 15 minutes.
Your first time attending one of our book clubs? You’ll be most welcome and we can’t wait to meet you!
Join us for our November Contemporary Fiction Book Club. We’ll be discussing Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
The Book Club will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 13th November at Next Chapter Books.
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 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 geological eons, Under the Eye of the Big Bird is at once an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it and a meditation on the qualities that, for better and worse, make us human.
The book club will take place at Next Chapter Books and run for approximately an hour and 15 minutes.
Your first time attending one of our book clubs? You’ll be most welcome and we can’t wait to meet you!
Tickets are non-refundable. Full details about our book club will be emailed to you ahead of the event.
