Lisbeth Koutchoumoff Arman
Published on November 27, 2024 at 10:50 p.m.
4 mins. reading
Orbital takes place in space but it is not a science fiction novel. Samantha Harvey, who has just won the Booker Prize with this fifth book, the most important distinction for literature in the English language, declares that she wanted to write a pastoral and that is very true. The shepherds and shepherdesses of the ancient genre are here six (fictitious) astronauts from the (very real) International Space Station, four men, two women, on a mission for several months, and their bucolic garden is the Earth that they observe through the portholes of their ship.
No unbearable suspense here around any technical aggravations (will they succeed in changing the bolt? Or will they drift into the interstellar void?) The stakes are elsewhere and it is intensely poetic, and political too. In the sense that words can change our outlook.
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