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A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their ...
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have 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. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live.
Profound, contemplative and gorgeous, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and a moving elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Her work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded...
Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Her work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
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0 有用 蛋花汤的温暖大碗 2024-11-29 15:47:07 美国
文字静美动人,但不适合我这山猪吃不了细糠
0 有用 杏子姜困茶 2024-11-29 06:55:13 新西兰
因为是太空宇宙题材所以特地去买来看。优点是她的想象力,真的好像身处太空一样。然后是文笔,能够把各种想象完全写出来。缺点是略显矫揉造作故作深沉,知道她想表达什么但因为基本上没有任何突出的情节,很容易就走神。排比句排山倒海,仿佛关不上的水龙头,是写得很好,但真的很空洞。
1 有用 lieerli 2024-11-16 23:58:00 重庆
诗性的胜利。语言非常美,细腻地描述着光线,地貌,云层,甚至可以用一章只写气象和外太空可见的疆域。在当下或许正需要这样的书,带着我们在太空中绕行,凝视着地球上昼夜和国界迅速交替,人类活动和争端都不可见,只能惊叹于壮丽、渺小、不可一瞬
0 有用 手机用户42889 2024-12-30 09:13:20 美国
虽然还是白女呓语型的小说,但是语言有趣(特别是名词的所有格),有一种往后推的挤压感……Orbit 13这一章的行文节奏是炸裂式的好
0 有用 zang 2025-01-18 14:27:18 北京
对宫娥的解读部分很有趣,给人思维游戏的快感。文中多处的矛盾修辞也像是在从不同角度审视人类和宇宙。六名宇航员做着相似却不相同的梦,就像地球的交响乐。 中间部分内容个人还是觉得有些无聊,一些具体的生活记忆感觉只是单纯的人事物堆砌。优美语句里的情感总是隔着一层而少了些真实。