For those of us who have loved passionately, if only briefly, 35 years earlier, and have never known such feelings since, we must console ourselves as best we can. To all of us who were, or are, 'Perfect Waiters', Alain Claude Sulzer's utterly captivating and erotic novel offers ambiguous answers at best, or perhaps cold comfort.

Set against the backdrop of a genteel Swiss hotel, and moving skillfully between two time periods, this exquisitely written story of a lifelong passion is rich in tension and emotion, exploring the nature of love and betrayal, memory, and regret. And Ernest must decide if he will finally take action. And then, after decades of silence, he receives a letter from a distraught and penniless Jakob asking for help. Nursing his wounds, Erneste slinks even deeper into his well-ordered world, hardening into what had only previously been a role. Jakob broke his heart when he fled Nazidominated Europe for a new life in America with his lover, Julius Klinger, a celebrated German intellectual. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a violent passion, aroused thirty years before, when he fell in love with a young waiter-in-training named Jakob. OL17409185W Page_number_confidence 89.66 Pages 234 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201204013502 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 256 Scandate 20201202051525 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780747590231 Tts_version 4.A sweeping, powerful novel about a man forced to come to terms with the memory of his lost love.Įrneste is the perfect waiter-and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his profession. Urn:lcp:perfectwaiter0000sulz:epub:d960a871-1073-4171-8ebf-46f5626ebbe1 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier perfectwaiter0000sulz Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9j48hx0z Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780747590231ġ596914114 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9806 Ocr_module_version 0.0.8 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400055 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:02:31 Associated-names Brownjohn, John, translator Boxid IA40010122 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

A Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer