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EditorialPENGUIN
EdadAdultos
IdiomaInglés Internacional
AutorHARVEY SAMANTHA
ISBN9781529922936
Peso ( kg )0,117
TipoSoporte Físico
Año de edición2024
FormatoTAPA RUSTICA
SinopsisAS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4

SHORTLISTED FOR 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?

SAMANTHA HARVEY
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.


HARVEY SAMANTHA
Samantha Harvey Kent, 1975 es autora de las novelas The Wilderness galardonada con el Premio Betty Trask en 2009 , All Is Song, Dear Thief y The Western Wind. Es profesora de Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Bath Spa.
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