Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Kepler's | Books Inc.
Fiction. 144 pages. Paperback. 2024. Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize.

Astronauts aboard the ISS reflect on Earth's fragility and beauty. "Profoundly moving" - The Times. "Lyrical and haunting" - The Observer.

From the publisher: Orbital is a slender novel of epic power that deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six astronauts and cosmonauts from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan aboard the International Space Station. Selected for one of the last space station missions before the program is dismantled, these individuals have left their lives behind to travel at over seventeen thousand miles an hour as Earth reels below. As they perform their vital work, they begin to ponder profound questions: What is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity? Through their reflections, Orbital offers an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet. ​

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