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В романе, ставшем лауреатом Букеровской премии в 2024 году, рассказывается об одном дне на Международной космической станции. На протяжении всего повествования мы будем смотреть на Землю глазами астронавтов. Они наблюдают удивительное зрелище, недоступное нам; замечают знакомые места; представляют, чем заняты близкие люди; грустят, что не могут быть с ними рядом; печалятся из-за потерь, которые уже не возместить. Читая эту миниатюрную книгу, наполненную философским смыслом и глубокими переживаниями, мы не можем не чувствовать ценность всего мира и уникальность каждой жизни.

Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data and conduct scientific experiments. But mostly they observe. Together they watch our silent blue planet: 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. 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?

The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. A book of wonder, Orbital is nature writing from space and an unexpected and profound love letter to life on Earth Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to 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…

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live.
Profound, contemplative and gorgeous, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and a moving elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet.

15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, Thomas Newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village? And what will happen if he can’t?
Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman’s death, the story is related by Reve – an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep. Through his eyes, and his indelible voice, Harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacy.

Великого поста таинственно пропадает самый богатый, образованный и предприимчивый местный житель – судя по найденной в камышах рубахе, его унесли речные воды. Но что произошло? Была то случайность, чей-то злой умысел, или вовсе самоубийство? Разобраться предстоит молодому священнику Джону Риву, глазами которого мы наблюдаем события. Кто, как не деревенский духовник, пастырь душ человеческих, знает все бесчисленные местные секреты? Однако никто не знает, какие секреты терзают его самого, какая битва разворачивается в его собственной душе… Скоро оказывается, что от исхода дела зависит будущее всей деревни.

Роман на первый взгляд кажется классическим детективом в красочных средневековых декорациях, однако повествование идет в обратном порядке: начинается финалом, оканчивается завязкой. И оказывается умной, изысканной, неторопливой историей о вине и совести, о борьбе религии и суеверий, духа и плоти.

1491-й год, деревушка Оукэм, затерянная средь английских лесов, отрезанная от центров цивилизации бурной рекой. Ранним утром приходит весть – погиб деревенский богач Томас Ньюман. Убийство, самоубийство, несчастный случай? А может, он и вовсе не умер, а исчез? Священник Джон Рив, которому как духовнику известны многие секреты жителей деревни, пытается разобраться, что же произошло с Ньюманом, человеком не только самым богатым в Оукэме, но и самым трудолюбовым, самым образованным и полным всевоможных идей. И что же будет, если случившееся с ним так и останется загадкой? История, рассказываемая священником, медленно, извилисто движется назад,…

Англия, XV век, маленькая деревенька Оукэм, отрезанная от всего мира разлившейся рекой. В канун Великого поста таинственно пропадает самый богатый, образованный и предприимчивый местный житель – судя по найденной в камышах рубахе, его унесли речные воды. Но что произошло? Была то случайность, чей-то злой умысел, или вовсе самоубийство? Разобраться предстоит молодому священнику Джону Риву, глазами которого мы наблюдаем события. Кто, как не деревенский духовник, пастырь душ человеческих, знает все бесчисленные местные секреты? Однако никто не знает, какие секреты терзают его самого, какая битва разворачивается в его собственной душе… Скоро оказывается, что от исхода дела зависит будущее всей деревни.
Роман на первый взгляд кажется классическим детективом в красочных средневековых декорациях, однако повествование идет в обратном порядке: начинается финалом, оканчивается завязкой. И оказывается умной, изысканной, неторопливой историей о вине и совести, о борьбе религии и суеверий, духа и плоти.
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Исполнитель: Григорий Перель
Samantha Harvey, 2020
Елена Полецкая, перевод, 2020
Андрей Бондаренко, оформление, 2020
ООО «Издательский Дом Фантом Пресс», издание, 2021
Запись произведена Аудио Издательством ВИМБО
&℗ ООО «Вимбо», 2021
Продюсеры: Вадим Бух, Михаил Литваков

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15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, Thomas Newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village? And what will happen if he can’t?

Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman’s death, the story is related by Reve – an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep. Through his eyes, and his indelible voice, Harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacy.

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