New York Review Books, Belletristik, Turtle Diary (Englisch, Russell Hoban, 2013)
18,00 €
Two lonely Londoners bond over a plan to free the sea turtles at the city zoo in this touching novel from a cult-favorite author who has drawn comparisons to J.D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut. A wise and touching classic that &ldquo crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony,&rdquo from the author of Riddley Walker (Time) Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban&rsquo s surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used bookstore, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children&rsquo s books, who, in her own estimation, &ldquo looks like the sort of spinster who doesn&rsquo t keep cats and is not a vegetarian. Looks&hellip like a man&rsquo s woman who hasn&rsquo t got a man.&rdquo Entirely unknown to each other, they are both drawn to the turtle tank at the London Zoo with &ldquo minds full of turtle thoughts,&rdquo wondering how the turtles might be freed. And then comes the day when Neaera walks into William&rsquo s bookstore, and together they form an unlikely partnership to make what seemed a crazy dream become a reality.
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