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Orbital

by Samantha Harvey

Booker Prize · 2024 · Winner
Grove Pressliterary-fictionISBN 9780802163721

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About This Book

Over the course of sixteen orbits of the earth, the six crew members of an international space station—from America, Russia, Britain, Italy, and Japan—carry out experiments, eat their freeze-dried food, and look down at the planet below. A novel of pure sensation and meditative beauty, Orbital concerns itself with the overwhelming experience of Earth viewed from space and what it means to be human.

About the Author

Samantha Harvey was born in 1975 in Ditton, Kent, near Maidstone, England. She spent her early childhood there, and after her parents' divorce moved frequently, including stints in York, Sheffield, and Japan. She studied philosophy at the University of York and the University of Sheffield, earned an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University in 2005, and completed a PhD in creative writing. Read more →

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