by Alain Claude Sulzer · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780747590231
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«A Perfect Waiter» is the literary novel by Alain Claude Sulzer, published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in hardcover (211 pages, in English).
Erneste, an exemplary waiter at a grand Swiss hotel, hides the love he felt for Jakob in the summer of 1935, a relationship that for the young man was only an affair. Three decades later, a letter with a US postmark forces him to confront his past and reconsider his memories. A novel about love, betrayal and memory.
Originally written in German under the title «Ein perfekter Kellner» (2004), the work was recognized with the Prix Médicis étranger in 2008.
For readers of literary fiction with LGBT themes and historical background.
Alain Claude Sulzer is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the NZZ. He has published more than ten books and has won several literary awards in the process, such as the Rauris Literature Prize (1984), or the Hermann-Hesse-Preis (2009).
