Samantha Harvey

Un himno maravilloso a lo ordinario y lo espectacular narrado a cuatrocientos kilómetros de la Tierra.Premio Booker 2024. Un grupo de seis astronautas lleva a cabo una misión rutinaria en la Estación Espacial Internacional, en la orbita terrestre baja. La de Pietro, italiano, es monitorizar los microbios presentes en la nave. Chie, la tripulante japonesa, cultiva cristales de proteinas y, al igual que sus compañeros, es objeto de estudio del impacto de la microgravedad en el funcionamiento neuronal. Shaun, el americano del grupo, observa que les ocurre a las raices de las plantas ante la falta de luz y gravedad para saber cuando y como poder cultivarlas. Nell, del Reino Unido, recoge los datos que le proporcionan sus cuarenta ratones acerca del desgaste muscular en el espacio. Roman y Anton, que ocupan el modulo ruso, estan al cargo del mantenimiento del generador de oxigeno. Todos deben informar sobre sus cefaleas; todos se acercan en algun momento a las ventanas de observacion y fotografian los lugares que les han sido asignados; todos cambian los detectores de humo, limpian el baño y la cocina, arreglan el inodoro. Y luchan contra la disipacion de sus cuerpos para no volver a casa con los huesos fragiles y debiles como corderos. Cada uno de ellos pasara en la estacion seis meses, mas de ciento ochenta dias en los que daran unas dieciseis vueltas diarias a la Tierra. En las mas de cuatro mil horas que viviran en el espacio reflexionaran acerca de que los ha llevado a ser astronautas y hasta que punto lo que estan viviendo ahora se parece a lo que habian imaginado entonces.Orbital es un viaje a los limites de nuestras certezas, un relato sobre el vertigo que produce la confrontacion con un vacio cosmico y una transformacion existencial: intima, pero tambien de un alcance universal, el que nos habla de lo que somos y creemos ser como especie.Una novela con momentos de puro extasis contemplativo, capaz de expandir, gracias a una exquisita eleccion de las imagenes y las palabras, nuestra percepcion de lo que la literatura puede llegar a hacer perceptible.

**BOOKER PRIZE 2024**''Stunning... An uplifting book'' SUNDAY TIMESLife on our planet as youve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?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.''A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'' GUARDIAN***A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***

It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean?As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, "The Wilderness" holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.

Its Jakes birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isnt quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimers. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by poor Eleanor, a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything hell be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.

It''s Jake''s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life. Now he is in his early 60s, and he isn''t quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer''s. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by ''poor Eleanor'', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he''ll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.

Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the 2015 Baileys Women''s Prize for FictionLonglisted for the 2015 Jerwood PrizeIn the middle of a winters night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget.Without knowing if her friend, Butterfly, is even alive or dead, she writes night after night a letter of friendship that turns into something more revealing and recriminating. By turns a belated outlet of rage, an act of self-defence, and an offering of forgiveness, the letter revisits a betrayal that happened a decade and a half before, and dissects what is left of a friendship caught between the forces of hatred and love.The thoughtfulness, intensity and sheer beauty of her writing in her first two novels, The Wilderness and All Is Song, brought Samantha Harvey both huge acclaim and many prize shortlistings. Those readers who loved those novels will fall on Dear Thief with relief and delight.

5th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, Thomas Newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village? And what will happen if he cant?Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newmans death, the story is related by Reve an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep. Through his eyes, and his indelible voice, Harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacy.

*VENCEDOR DO BOOKER PRIZE 2024*Quatrocentos quilômetros acima da Terra, quatro homens e duas mulheres — dos Estados Unidos, do Japão, da Inglaterra, da Itália e da Rússia — compartilham a estação esp

Life on our planet as youve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?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.

Un himno maravilloso a lo ordinario y lo espectacular narrado a cuatrocientos quilómetros de la tierra.Premio Booker 2024.Un grupo de seis astronautas lleva a cabo una misión rutinaria en la Estación Espacial Internacional, en la orbita terrestre baja. La de Pietro, italiano, es monitorizar los microbios presentes en la nave. Chie, la tripulante japonesa, cultiva cristales de proteinas y, al igual que sus compañeros, es objeto de estudio del impacto de la microgravedad en el funcionamiento neuronal. Shaun, el americano del grupo, observa que les ocurre a las raices de las plantas ante la falta de luz y gravedad para saber cuando y como poder cultivarlas. Nell, del Reino Unido, recoge los datos que le proporcionan sus cuarenta ratones acerca del desgaste muscular en el espacio. Roman y Anton, que ocupan el modulo ruso, estan al cargo del mantenimiento del generador de oxigeno. Todos deben informar sobre sus cefaleas; todos se acercan en algun momento a las ventanas de observacion y fotografian los lugares que les han sido asignados; todos cambian los detectores de humo, limpian el baño y la cocina, arreglan el inodoro. Y luchan contra la disipacion de sus cuerpos para no volver a casa con los huesos fragiles y debiles como corderos. Cada uno de ellos pasara en la estacion seis meses, mas de ciento ochenta dias en los que daran unas dieciseis vueltas diarias a la Tierra. En las mas de cuatro mil horas que viviran en el espacio reflexionaran acerca de que los ha llevado a ser astronautas y hasta que punto lo que estan viviendo ahora se parece a lo que habian imaginado entonces.Orbital es un viaje a los limites de nuestras certezas, un relato sobre el vertigo que produce la confrontacion con un vacio cosmico y una transformacion existencial: intima, pero tambien de un alcance universal, el que nos habla de lo que somos y creemos ser como especie.Una novela con momentos de puro extasis contemplativo, capaz de expandir, gracias a una exquisita eleccion de las imagenes y las palabras, nuestra percepcion de lo que la literatura puede llegar a hacer perceptible.

« Une série de coups de feu interrompt la discussion. Il y a la guerre, ou il y a eu la guerre, ou… quoi ?… il ne sait pas, là maintenant. Fouiller au fond de sa mémoire est comme plonger sa main dan

Roman récompensé par le Prix Booker 2024. À l’intérieur de la Station spatiale internationale, chacun des six astronautes s’affaire à sa tâche, traversé par des interrogations existentielles. Certain

Von oben betrachtet sieht die Welt gleich ganz anders aus Sechs Astronauten schweben in einer Raumstation durchs All. Den Planeten Erde umkreisen sie in 90 Minuten, sechzehnmal in 24 Stunden. Die zwei Frauen und vier Manner aus ganz unterschiedlichen Nationen arbeiten, essen und schlafen auf engstem Raum und doch ist alles losgelost vom Alltag, Schwerkraft und Zeitempfinden sind auer Kraft gesetzt. Was passiert, wenn man seine Heimat nur aus weiter Ferne durch ein kleines Fenster sieht? Wie verandern sich Denken und Fuhlen? In dem Zeitraum von nur einem Tag, wahrend die Sonne sechzehnmal auf- und untergeht, betrachtet dieser ungewohnliche, kraftvoll poetische Roman die groen und kleinen Fragen der Menschheit und bringt uns der Schonheit des Universums ganz nahe. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize 2024 und Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2024, nominiert fur den Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024 sowie den Ursula K. Le Guin Prize 2024

Una deslumbrante exploración del insomnio y, a través de él, de la condición humana, la memoria, los miedos, el lenguaje, la creatividad... Un día –o más bien una noche– la escritora Samantha Harvey

Booker Prize 2024 À lintérieur de la Station spatiale internationale, chacun des six astronautes saffaire à sa tâche, traversé par des interrogations existentielles. Certains sinquiètent du sort de l

Libro vincitore del Booker Prize 2024Orbital e un'elegia alla bellezza dell'universo e del nostro pianeta, una fotografia nitida e luminosa delle relazioni tra esseri umani in cerca di salvezza.Elegante ed essenziale, questo romanzo e una lettura che fa riflettere. - Kirkus ReviewSei astronauti viaggiano in orbita attorno alla terra, nell'ultima missione da compiere a bordo della stazione spaziale prima che venga smantellata. Vengono dall'America, dalla Russia, dall'Italia, dalla Gran Bretagna e dal Giappone, e hanno lasciato le loro vite dietro di se per osservare la terra muoversi sotto di loro. Li vediamo nei brevi momenti di intimita in cui ricevono notizie da casa, contemplano le loro foto, preparano pasti disidratati, dormono a mezz'aria in assenza di gravita. E soprattutto, siamo con loro mentre studiano il silenzioso pianeta blu, su cui scorre intensa la vita da cui sono esclusi.

De retour à Londres, Leonard Deppling trouve refuge chez son frère, William, qui reste aux yeux de tous une véritable énigme. Pour William le bonheur et la liberté découlent de la connaissance de soi

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITALIn the middle of a winters night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget.Without knowing if her friend, Butterfly, is even alive or dead, she writes night after night a letter of friendship that turns into something more revealing and recriminating. By turns a belated outlet of rage, an act of self-defence, and an offering of forgiveness, the letter revisits a betrayal that happened a decade and a half before, and dissects what is left of a friendship caught between the forces of hatred and love.A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate TESSA HADLEYRavishing Harvey offers an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITALLeonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his fathers death. He moves in with his distant brother William and his family, hoping to renew their friendship but learning to drop his expectations of brotherhood. William is a former lecturer and activist who now runs informal meetings with ex-students. He is defiantly unworldly and forever questioning.When a young student follows Williams arguments to a shocking conclusion, it appears William has already set his own fate in motion. Against a backdrop of tabloid frenzy, Leonard can only watch as William embraces the danger in the only way he knows how, which threatens to consume not only himself, but his entire family.*cover may vary*Profoundly beautifulDAILY TELEGRAPH Graceful and unhurried, full of sharp observation and moments of subtly understated pathos GUARDIAN

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITALIts Jakes birthday. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimers.As the disease takes hold of him, the key events of his life shift, and what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings. Is his daughter alive or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what do they mean? Is there anything hell be able to salvage from the wreckage?*cover may vary*Deeply original and captivating [a novel] so full of urgent life that it rouses even as it terrifies OLIVIA LAING, OBSERVERBrilliant An extraordinary dramatization of a mind in the process of disintegration THE TIMES