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.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and contemplative.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Samantha Harvey
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781529922936
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