**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**
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'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'
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'Stunning... An uplifting book'
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Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
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?
'Our unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and ambition. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share' Edmund de Waal, Chair of the 2024 Booker Prize judges
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Orbital 9781529922936 Paperback
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Orbital - Samantha Harvey
This is a beautifully written book. The characters don't 'go' anywhere as they are in orbit for weeks going around the earth. I've only ever been 'there and back', never travelled on a repetitive route. I was mesmerised by 'seeing it all again but different'…
This is a beautifully written book. The characters don't 'go' anywhere as they are in orbit for weeks going around the earth. I've only ever been 'there and back', never travelled on a repetitive route. I was mesmerised by 'seeing it all again but different' according to the time of day and the weather. This is the perfect book to give a new view of our home planet.
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- Authors:
- Harvey, Samantha
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781529922936
- Number of Pages:
- 144
- Publication Date:
- 27/06/2024
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781529922936