Šest astronautů obíhá v kosmické lodi kolem Země. Planetu oběhnou za 90 minut, šestnáctkrát během 24 hodin. Dvě ženy a čtyři muži spolu tráví veškerý čas ve stavu beztíže a ve stísněném prostoru, během pobytu ve vesmíru ztrácejí pojem o čase. Poeticky laděný, pomalu plynoucí román popisuje jeden den v životě astronautů, během něhož šestnáctkrát vyjde a zapadne slunce; nahlíží jim do mysli i do snů, všímá si otázek, které lidstvo zajímají už odpradávna, a přibližuje úchvatnou barevnost Země při pohledu z dáli i nádhernou a zároveň děsivou temnotu vesmíru útočící na všechny lidské smysly.

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?

Popis není dostupný

Popis není dostupný

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL**Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the 2015 Baileys Women''s Prize for FictionLonglisted for the 2015 Jerwood PrizeIn the middle of a winter’s night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget.Without knowing if her friend, Butterfly, is even alive or dead, she writes night after night – a letter of friendship that turns into something more revealing and recriminating. By turns a belated outlet of rage, an act of self-defence, and an offering of forgiveness, the letter revisits a betrayal that happened a decade and a half before, and dissects what is left of a friendship caught between the forces of hatred and love.