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Orbital
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Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024
'Stunning... An uplifting book' — SUNDAY TIMES
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before — in this spellbinding and uplifting novel, six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?
Together, they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world, they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from Earth, they have never felt more part — or protective — of it.
'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' — GUARDIAN
A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey is lauded for its serene beauty, originality, and intelligent creation. Reviewers praise its compelling prose, noting it evokes wonder and fragility while offering an uplifting, hopeful perspective on our planet. It's described as both a unique meditation on existence and a stunning love letter to Earth.
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ISBN: 9781787334342
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 02 November 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 206.0mm
Weight: 229g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease- A Year of Not Sleeping. Her work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
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