Rarely yes
This wish has always been a great inspiration to writers and poets. The sages of India even imagined the universe by looking at the sky and then developed the entire science of astronomy, the precision of which still amazes the world. A highly awarded novel has just arrived. 'Orbital' and author, Samantha Harvey. This novel may look like science fiction, but the creative energy of the author is so unique that in this novel you will find the philosophy of existence, prose cultivated with literary nuance and environmental issues connected to the earth. One of the reasons why the novel has attracted some scholars to read is that at a time when the world's view of the evolving universe is changing, where Elon Musk's Mars colony can be heard buzzing around, this prose-like narrative, a mixture of wonder and cosmology, is the very nature of changing literature. It is attractive to students. The plot goes something like this, there are six astronauts, they are from Japan, America, Britain, Italy and Russia, there are four men and two women. The journey description is only 24 hours, but this spacecraft orbits the Earth 16 times. So the whole thing becomes very juicy. The beginning itself is overwhelming. 'Roaming around the Earth brought them all so close to each other and so isolated that their thoughts, the myths hidden within them, seemed to mingle with each other. As if all were dreaming the same dream, a feeling of slipping into a deep cave, an expanding blue sky and sometimes black horizons looming. This uncultivated sky feels like a celestial tiger, sometimes haunted by inhuman emotions, sometimes haunted by dreams.' This may sound like a strong anecdotal story, but the experience is fictional. This increases the literary value of this novel. For this, the writer's sufficiency is worth listening to, she started writing this novel earlier and stopped halfway, she wanted to ask herself the basic question that I am neither an astronaut nor a space scientist, so I am qualified to write such a story. What! But then the whole story is written with great thrill. There are six persons, meaning six languages, different understandings of time and different outlooks on life. But after coming to this cave, it is like swimming, watching the sunrise and sunset 16 times in 24 hours. These experiences happen in such a way that you cannot count the time. Don't be aware of time. Writer Samantha's language is poetic, she is very famous for her prose poems. He called the trees like sentries standing still, their branches like the lines on the face of a wise old man. For this reason, while awarding the Booker Prize, the judges said that this is a long love letter written to the earth. Because the six astronauts here have a different mindset. For this the writer has to not only make a strange entry but also have a unique focus. The endless sky peeking in from the outside creates a sense of vastness and the unknown confusion of the dreaded geography (astronomy). Absence of gravity and home-family creates a celestial void. Some reviewer has written well that this is human experience with a godly view. (Being a human being and feeling God) On the other hand, when these people see the sea, they see the storms rising in the sea, they see how the silent rocks are staring at this sea, they see the night glow of the world's metropolises, they also see the haze of the earth affected by environmental problems. The writer captures all this, and sculpts the language in such a way that both beauty and value are revealed in the language. And this is why this novel differs from 'science fiction'. Many literary critics observe that the author is more alive with narrative style in this story than in her novels like The western wind. One of the six celestials remembers a childhood picture, the picture is inside the picture, and in one corner of the picture is the king and queen, inside the picture but the king and queen are outside the picture. Such depictions have made this story interesting. It is recalled that the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked astronaut Rakesh Sharma, 'How does India feel…' and Sharma said, 'Sare jahan se achcha…' Such a space craft of human emotions is 'Orbital…'
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