薩曼莎哈維 (Samantha Harvey) 的《‘Orbital’ 軌道》榮獲 2024 年布克獎：“美麗、神奇”的小說，該小說以空間站為背景...Earth from space. She found the images “intimate and domestic,” she said.Credit...: James By Percival Everett

While writing the novel, Samantha Harvey said she watched a YouTube stream showing Earth from space. She found the images “intimate and domestic,” she said.Credit...Andy Rain/EPA, via Shutterstock

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ Wins 2024 Booker Prize

Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station.

James

By Percival Everett

It takes a lot of ambition, skill and vision to reinvent one of the most iconic books in American letters, but Everett demonstrates he possesses those virtues in droves in “James.” The novel is a radical reworking of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” telling the story not from Huck’s perspective, but from the point of view of the enslaved man who accompanies Huck down the Mississippi River: Jim (or, as he clarifies, James). From James’s eyes, we see he is no mere sidekick but rather a thinker and a writer who is code-switching as illiterate and fighting desperately for freedom. Everett’s novel is a literary hat trick — a book that highlights the horrors in American history and complicates an American classic, all while also emerging as a work of exquisite originality in its own right. Read our review.

薩曼莎哈維 (Samantha Harvey) 的《軌道》榮獲 2024 年布克獎
大多數賭注都押在珀西瓦爾·埃弗里特的《詹姆斯》上，但評委們選擇了哈維的“美麗、神奇”的小說，該小說以空間站為背景。

 Britain's #SamanthaHarvey won the 2024 #BookerPrize for her novel '#Orbital', a story about a single day aboard the #InternationalSpaceStation.

Harvey wrote the novel, her fifth, during the #UK's many COVID-19 #lockdowns.

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