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portada Orbital
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2024
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781529922936

Orbital

Samantha Harvey (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

Orbital - Samantha Harvey

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Synopsis "Orbital"

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

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?

MEDIA REVIEWS
In this slender novel, Harvey seems to have encompassed all of humanity… It is an extraordinary achievement - Observer

Orbital is entirely original, a serenely beautiful and intelligent creation - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year*

Orbital is the rarest of things, a book that satisfies both my lifelong obsession with space travel and my hunger for sentences and paragraphs that demand to be read and reread… My goodness this novel is beautiful - New Statesman, Books of the Year*

Stunning… The beauty of the prose engages the reader fully… An uplifting book - Sunday Times

In contrast to the bleak apocalyptic tone of much contemporary climate fiction, Orbital’s luminous descriptions remind us of the beauty at stake when humanity plays fast and loose with our single, and singular, blue marble - Financial Times
Samantha Harvey
  (Author)
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Samantha Harvey (Kent in 1975) is a British novelist. Her work covers themes such as memory, identity, and spirituality, explored with lyrical and evocative prose. Her first novel, The Wilderness (2009), won the Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award.

Among her most notable works are All Is Song (2012), Dear Thief (2014), and The Western Wind (2018). In 2024, Harvey won the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, a space epic that narrates the reflections of six astronauts at the International Space Station over 24 hours. In addition to her novels, she has published a non-fiction work titled The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (2020), where she addresses her experience with insomnia.
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Cristina Dupuis Tuesday, May 06, 2025
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I haven't read the book yet, as I bought it for my summer holidays; but the service and the delivery have been perfect, as always. Thank you so much.

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Alfonso Ortiz De Guinea Monday, January 06, 2025

Es una prosa muy poética y bella, pero no apta para lectores que no dominen el inglés a un altísimo nivel. No porque no vayan a entender, en contexto, el significado general de cada párrafo o capítulo, sino porque, al ser un lenguaje tan poético, precisarán una lectura muy detallista, diccionario en una mano y con todo el tiempo del mundo en la otra. Por otro lado, si lo que buscas es una novela en la que pasen cosas, este no es tu libro. Reflexiones, sueños, observaciones... A veces tengo la impresión de que la autora necesitaba una plataforma para compartir sus pensamientos y ha usado el recurso de... unos astronautas vagando alrededor de la tierra con poco que hacer. En ese sentido, el libro es más una excusa para filosofar que un escenario vivo en el que se desarrolla una historia y evolucionan unos personajes.

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