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Winner of The Booker Prize 2024! Orbital by Samantha Harvey

By Dylan Bland  •   1 minute read

Winner of The Booker Prize 2024! Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Orbital

Orbital by Samantha Harvey has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2024.

Chair of the judges, Edmund de Waal, describes the winner as 'a book about a wounded world' adding that the panel's 'unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and ambition'.

Orbital takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. Compact yet beautifully expansive, Orbital invites us to observe Earth’s splendour, whilst reflecting on the individual and collective value of every human life.  

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"Orbital is a hopeful book and it studies people who act on their hope. It’s an Anthropocene book resistant to doom." 
"Reading Orbital is a dizzying experience; she evokes the texture of daily life in the space station and pans out to sweeping, lyrical descriptions of the natural world, underpinning both with profound questions about our place in the cosmos. It is an extraordinary achievement, containing multitudes." - The Guardian

 

 

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