Orbital A Novel
Orbital by Samantha Harvey is a novel published by Grove Atlantic in 2023, featuring 207 pages in English. This work presents a meditation on space and life on Earth through the perspectives of six astronauts orbiting the planet over a 24-hour period. As they embark on one of the final missions of its kind, the narrative captures their experiences, from the challenges of living in space to their connections with loved ones back home.
Readers will find a blend of science fiction and literary elements as the astronauts navigate their daily routines, including preparing meals and exercising in microgravity. The novel explores themes of space exploration and the environment, offering a poignant reflection on the beauty and fragility of our planet. Through their journey, the characters form bonds that highlight the human experience amidst the vastness of space, making Orbital a contemplative exploration of both isolation and connection.
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
**New York Times Book Review Book Club Pick**
**Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show Book Club Pick**
Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize
Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Climate Fiction Prize
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2024
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours
“Ravishingly beautiful.” — Joshua Ferris, New York Times
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.
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