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Orbital
language: english
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Vintage Publishing, June of 2024 ‧
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SYNOPSIS
Winner of the Booker Prize 2024
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below.
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. 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. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below.
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. 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. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
PRESS REVIEWS
«A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas»
Guardian
«Stunning... An uplifting book»
Sunday Times
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9781529922936 |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Release Date: | June of 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 129 x 199 x 8 mm |
| Cover: | Softcover |
| Pages: | 144 |
| Format: | Book |
| Categories: |
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Romance
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| EAN: | 9781529922936 |
REVIEWS
Sideral!
SusySaki
É tudo o que já se disse, merece todos os prémios, vou ler tudo o que Samantha Harvey escrever (li em inglês).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samantha Harvey
Nasceu em Kent, Inglaterra, e passou parte da juventude em York, em Sheffield e, depois, no Japão. Estudou Filosofia nas universidades de York e Sheffield, tendo completado um mestrado em Escrita Criativa na Bath Spa University, onde é atualmente docente.
Além de Orbital, é autora de quatro romances — The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief e The Western Wind — e de um livro de memórias, The Shapeless Unease.
O romance Orbital foi finalista do Orwell Prize for Political Fiction e do Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction de 2024, tendo sido distinguido com o InWords Literary Award de 2024, o Hawthornden Prize for Literature de 2024 e o Booker Prize de 2024.
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