A perfect waiter
Alain Claude Sulzer (Author), John Brownjohn (Translator)
Set in 1966 Switzerland, self-possessed, middle-aged Erneste is the rock of the Restaurant am Berg, working the lavish Blue Room without missing a shift in 16 years. A letter posted from New York threatens to shatter the orderly cocoon he's built around himself. Claiming to be in a bad way from every angle, Jakob Meier, Erneste's one great love of 30 years ago, pleads with Erneste to track down Julius Klinger, the intellectual whom Jakob followed to America in 1936. Publisher
Print Book, English, 2008
First U.S. edition 2008
Bloomsbury, London, 2008