01919nam a22003375i 4500 OSt 20241217153528.0 241206s2025 meu 000 0 eng 9781529922936 DLC ENG pcc 823 SAM-O Harvey, Samantha Orbital / by Samantha Harvey. London: Vintage , 2024. 136 p. PB text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Booker prize winner - 2024 "A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet"-- English literature Fiction Novel Booker Prize 2024 BK ddc ddc ddc 0 83976 83976 0 0 ddc 0 ENG 0 STCPL STCPL ENG 2024-12-17 499.00 2 1 823 SAM-O 92222 2025-11-24 09:22:11 2025-11-12 2024-12-17 BK