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BuchGebunden
144 Seiten
Englisch
Random House UKerschienen am02.11.2023
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMESLife on our planet as you´ve 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***mehr
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BuchGebunden
EUR19,00
BuchGebunden
EUR24,00
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR13,00
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR17,50

Produkt

Klappentext**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMESLife on our planet as you´ve 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***
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-78733-434-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum02.11.2023
Seiten144 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht226 g
Artikel-Nr.60218029
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GenreSF/Fantasy HC

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
In this slender novel, Harvey seems to have encompassed all of humanity... It is an extraordinary achievement Observermehr

Autor

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.