![]() ![]() Turtle Diary is a tale of the heritage the nature had left to man: The windows were all closed, the place was quite airless. When I opened the door to my flat it was like opening a box of stale time. ![]() Turtle Diary is a tale of loneliness and isolation: There are some books that can accommodate much more than the number of their pages may suggest, and Turtle Diary is one of those. They kill the whales to feed the dogs so the dogs can shit on the pavement and the people can walk in it. They make dog- and cat-food out of them, face creams, lipstick. Turtle Diary is a tale of loneliness and isolation: When I opened the d We always forget that our planet is our home and behave like predators… ![]() We always forget that our planet is our home and behave like predators… They won’t stop killing the whales. And then comes the day when Neaera walks into William’s bookstore, and together they form an unlikely partnership to make what seemed a crazy dream become a reality.more Looks…like a man’s woman who hasn’t got a man.” Entirely unknown to each other, they are both drawn to the turtle tank at the London zoo with “minds full of turtle thoughts,” wondering how the turtles might be freed. Neaera is a successful writer of children’s books, who, in her own estimation, “looks like the sort of spinster who doesn’t keep cats and is not a vegetarian. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban’s surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. Neaera is a successful writer of children’s books, who, in her own Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. ![]()
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