{"id":70406,"date":"2025-08-31T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/orbital-a-novel-booker-prize-winner\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:18:32","slug":"orbital-a-novel-booker-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/orbital-a-novel-booker-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 \u2022 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<\/p>\n

**New York Times Book Review Book Club Pick**<\/p>\n

**Stephen Colbert\u2019s The Late Show Book Club Pick**<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2024<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

“Ravishingly beautiful.” \u2014 Joshua Ferris, New York Times<\/p>\n

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\u2014from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan\u2014have 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.<\/p>\n

Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.<\/p>\n


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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Grove Press
Publication date \u200f : \u200e October 29, 2024
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Print length \u200f : \u200e 224 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0802163629
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0802163622
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 5.6 ounces
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5 x 0.53 x 7.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Exploration Science Fiction #91 in Literary Fiction (Books) #636 in Genre Literature & Fiction
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