Orbital
- Proizvođač: Penguin
- Šifra proizvoda: 9781529922936
- Dostupnost: Na lageru
- €15.00
- Osnovica: €15.00
Samantha Harvey
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**
**THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological
data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But
mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it
sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in
glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless
shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull.
News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of
returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people
they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their
dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of
it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without
humanity?
'Our unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and
ambition. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the
precious and precarious world we share' Edmund de Waal, Chair of the 2024
Booker Prize judges
*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL
TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, DAILY MAIL AND MAIL
ON SUNDAY*
'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set
against epic vistas'
GUARDIAN
'Stunning... An uplifting book'
SUNDAY TIMES
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