by Tom Robbins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499224423
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«Halbschlaf im Froschpyjama» is the satirical novel by Tom Robbins, published by Rowohlt Tb. in paperback (485 pages, in German).
On the eve of Easter, the Seattle stock market crashes and Gwendolyn Mati, an ambitious broker with unethical methods, fears ruin. That fateful weekend mixes the disappearance of a psychic, a reborn monkey and a tattooed man who threatens her, with African rituals, legendary amphibians and tarot. Delirious comedy with social criticism.
German translation by Pociao and Walter Hartmann; original in English: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994). Number 22442 in the rororo collection.
For readers of absurd humour, social satire and magical realism, with criticism of materialism.
Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies". His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir". From 1970, Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington, where he wrote nine of his books.
