Verein allerArt: Literary salon: "Orbits" from Samantha Harvey

The world looks completely different from above

Six astronauts float through space in a space station. They orbit the planet Earth in 90 minutes, sixteen times in 24 hours. The two women and four men from very different nations work, eat and sleep in a very confined space - and yet everything is detached from everyday life, gravity and the sense of time are suspended. What happens when you can only see your home from afar through a small window? How do your thoughts and feelings change? In the space of just one day, while the sun rises and sets sixteen times, this unusual, powerfully poetic novel looks at the big and small questions of humanity and brings us very close to the beauty of the universe.

“I didn't realize how much I missed this book until I read it. This novel makes the most beautiful tears flow.” Ruth-Maria Thomas Winner of the Booker Prize 2024 and Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2024, nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024 and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize 2024

Moderation: Wolfgang Maurer

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Admission: € 6,-