萨曼莎·哈维：轨道 2024年布克奖获奖 Orbital

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 160 pages

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Imprint:Vintage

ISBN:9781529922936

Published:27 Jun 2024

Weight:116g

Dimensions:196 x 130 x 13 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

**2024 年布克奖得主**

“这是一部以史诗般的远景为背景的，对人类内心恐惧的深入而深刻的研究”

《卫报》

“令人震惊……一本振奋人心的书”

《星期日泰晤士报》

你从未见过的地球上的生活

国际空间站的宇航员团队收集气象数据、进行科学实验并测试人体的极限。但他们大部分时间都在观察。他们一起观察着这颗寂静的蓝色星球，绕着它转了十六圈，越过大陆，穿越四季，欣赏冰川和沙漠、山峰和海洋的波涛。一天之内，他们目睹了无数壮观的美景。

然而，尽管他们与世界隔绝，但他们无法摆脱它不断的吸引力。他们得知了母亲去世的消息，随之而来的是回家的念头。他们眼睁睁地看着台风席卷一座岛屿和他们所爱的人，敬畏它的壮丽，害怕它的毁灭。

人类生命的脆弱充斥着他们的谈话、他们的恐惧、他们的梦想。远离地球，他们从未感到自己是地球的一部分，也从未感到自己是地球的保护者。他们开始问，没有地球，生命会怎样？没有人类，地球会怎样？

**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**

'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'

GUARDIAN

'Stunning... An uplifting book'

SUNDAY TIMES

Life on our planet as you've never seen it before

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. 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. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?

媒体推荐

在这部短篇小说中，哈维似乎囊括了全人类……这是一项非凡的成就 ——《观察家》

《轨道》完全是原创的，是一部宁静而美丽、充满智慧的作品 ——《星期日邮报》，*年度图书*

《轨道》是罕见的，这本书既满足了我一生对太空旅行的痴迷，也满足了我对需要一读再读的句子和段落的渴望……我的天啊，这本小说太美了 ——《新政治家》，*年度图书*

令人震惊……散文之美让读者完全投入其中……一本令人振奋的书 ——《星期日泰晤士报》

与许多当代气候小说的阴暗末日基调形成鲜明对比的是，《轨道》的明亮描述提醒我们，当人类玩弄我们的蓝色大理石时，美丽岌岌可危 ——《金融时报》

In this slender novel, Harvey seems to have encompassed all of humanity… It is an extraordinary achievement ― Observer

Orbital is entirely original, a serenely beautiful and intelligent creation ― Mail on Sunday, *Books of the Year*

Orbital is the rarest of things, a book that satisfies both my lifelong obsession with space travel and my hunger for sentences and paragraphs that demand to be read and reread… My goodness this novel is beautiful ― New Statesman, *Books of the Year*

Stunning… The beauty of the prose engages the reader fully… An uplifting book ― Sunday Times

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 ― Financial Times

作者简介

萨曼莎·哈维是小说《荒野》、《万物皆歌》、《亲爱的小偷》和《西风》的作者，也是非虚构作品《无形的不安：一年不眠之夜》的作者。她的作品曾入围布克奖，并入围詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克奖、女性奖、卫报图书奖和沃尔特·斯科特奖。《荒野》获得了贝蒂·特拉斯克奖。她是巴斯斯巴大学创意写作硕士课程的导师。

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 GuardianFirst 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.