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Today — 13 November 2024Main stream

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ Wins Booker Prize

13 November 2024 at 05:56
Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station.

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While writing the novel, Samantha Harvey said she watched a YouTube stream showing Earth from space. She found the images “intimate and domestic,” she said.
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