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By Samantha Harvey
Literary Fiction
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.
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.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
Winner of the Booker Prize 2024