Orbital Ben Wood and the gradual realization that

and the gradual realization that it can’t exist

an obsession

Gathered from Paulo Coelho’s daily column of the same name

Friday night

and drawing heavily from unpublished oral histories taken from dam workers and their families

Orbital Ben Wood and the gradual realization thatSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours "Ravishingly beautiful." Joshua Ferris, New York Times A