Perfect Waiter

Zusatztext 'It tells a compelling love story between two men both working in a grand hotel in the 1930s ... This is elegant writing! perfectly pitched to reflect the sadness and regret attendant on such a liaison' Informationen zum Autor Alain Claude Sulzer was born in Basel in 1953. His first novel was published in 1983 and he has since written four further novels, including Annas Maske (2001) and numerous short stories. A Perfect Waiter is his first novel to be published in English. He lives in Alsace. John Brownjohn is one of Britain's leading German translators and has won critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic including for 'My Wounded Heart': The Life of LIlli Jahn 1900-44 by Martin Doerry (Bloomsbury, 2004). Among his most recent awards are the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Marcel Beyer's The Karnau Tapes. Zusammenfassung A moving, cinematic gay love story set in one of the Switzerland's grand hotels in the late 1930s and 1960s

Product details

• Authors: Alain Claude Sulzer, Sulzer Alain Claude
• Assisted by: John Brownjohn (Translation), Brownjohn John (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.01.2009
• EAN: 9780747596271
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-9627-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary