Meraviglioso, salvavita. Colloca Russell Hoban tra i più grandi romanzieri senza tempo' The Times Nate per nuotare per migliaia di miglia nell'oceano, le tartarughe marine giganti sono ora intrappolate in una vasca di acqua verde-oro allo zoo di Londra. Ma non per molto ancora. Due persone sole, un libraio e un illustratore per bambini, hanno iniziato a pensare a delle tartarughe. Mentre si uniscono per escogitare un piano per liberare le tartarughe in mare, i loro diari rivelano come scoprono che le loro vite stanno cambiando in modi impercettibili e del tutto involontari. 'Scocchi di dettagli arguti, intelligenza mordace e ironia autoironica' Time 'Questa bella favola umana mi sembra una delle cose migliori del suo genere: un risultato raffinato e toccante' John Fowles.
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On his death in 2011, The Times described Russell Hoban as 'perhaps the most consistently strange writer of the late 20th century'. He thought and wrote in an extraordinary range of genres, becoming first a bestselling writer of children's books, particularly the immortal Frances stories and his first novel, The Mouse and His Child (1968). After its publication he continued to write for children (most notably perhaps the Captain Najork books with Quentin Blake and The Marzipan Pig), but focussed most of his energies on a sequence of wonderful novels, which began with The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973) and ended with Angelica Lost and Found (2010). He also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Second Mrs Kong (1994).
His novels were wildly various, but share his obsession with objects, animals, specific works of art and pieces of music, his love of words and sense of humour. Penguin Modern Classics publishes his first eight novels: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Kleinzeit, Turtle Diary, Riddley Walker, Pilgermann, The Medusa Frequency, Fremder and Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer.
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