Judges praise ‘beautiful and miraculous’ novel that tells the story of astronauts on the International Space Station
Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction for her novel Orbital, a sharp, lyrical meditation on the state of the Earth and humanity as viewed from space, described by the judges as “beautiful and miraculous”.
The Financial Times review said Harvey’s book raised “a clarion call without being preachy”, adding that in contrast to “the bleak apocalyptic tone of much contemporary climate fiction, Orbital’s luminous descriptions remind us of the beauty at stake when humanity plays fast and loose with our single, and singular, blue marble”.
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