Booker Prize
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 * Six astronauts orbit Earth for one day, witnessing sixteen sunrises in this luminous meditation on our fragile planet. Samantha Harvey’s ravishingly beautiful novel transforms the view from space into something profound and unforgettable. Selected by Barack Obama as a favorite read of 2024.
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Step inside our shop and let us tell you about a book that feels like looking through a porthole at something vast and extraordinary. Orbital is Samantha Harvey’s luminous meditation on space, Earth, and what it means to be human when you’re seventeen thousand miles above home.
Six astronauts and cosmonauts circle our planet for a single day, witnessing sixteen sunrises and sunsets as the blue marble spins below them. Harvey captures their floating routines—the dehydrated meals, the regimented exercise, the gravity-free sleep—but more than that, she captures the profound intimacy of watching Earth from the silence of space. Through brief communications home, cherished photographs, and the bonds they form with one another, these travelers from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan become our guides to seeing our own world anew.
The New York Times calls it “ravishingly beautiful,” and we couldn’t agree more. This slender novel carries epic power, earning recognition as one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2024 and winning the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. It’s been selected by both the New York Times Book Review Book Club and Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Book Club.
Orbital is both a love letter to our fragile planet and a contemplative journey into the cosmos. Perfect for readers who appreciate literary science fiction that lingers in the mind long after the final page.
Ravishingly beautiful.
A slim, profound book about six astronauts circling the Earth that left me weeping at its final page.
A book about a wounded world... Everyone should read it.
Stunning... Harvey writes with such exquisite precision and quiet wonder.
Miraculous... This is a novel that repays multiple readings.
Extraordinary... A book of great intensity and beauty.
Mesmerizing... Harvey's prose is crystalline.
A slim, poetic wonder.
Dazzling... A meditation on our fragile world.
| Dimensions | 5.00 × 0.53 × 7.25 in |
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| Subject | Exploration, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Accolade | Booker Prize, New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Notable Book |
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