Jayant Prasad

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Samantha Harvey |Bhavya Dore |Jayant Prasad |Vaishna Roy

Six astronauts circle the earth aboard the International Space Station. How do they feel and what do they see in the course of one earth day? This is the premise of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, which won the 2024 Booker Prize. A slim 136-page affair set in space, it is neither science fiction nor speculative fiction. It operates in the straightforward register of realism.