Don't Stop the Carnival

It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise.

It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster -- of a sort peculiar to the tropics -- ensue.)

It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as The Caine Mutiny and War and Remembrance draws on his own experience (Wouk and his family lived for seven years on an island in the sun) to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving.

Este visul oricarui cap de papagal: sa lase in urma cursa sobolanilor din lumea de zi cu zi si sa inceapa viata din nou in mijlocul adierei reci, a culorilor imbujorate de soare si a bauturilor cu rum din un paradis tropical. Este povestea lui Norman Paperman, un New Agent de presa din orasul York, care, confruntandu-se cu debutul varstei medii, fuge pe o insula din Caraibe pentru a se reinventa ca un hotelier.