Waiter
«As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is a brilliantly exquisite view into an uproariously vigilant life of service and protocol. In Faldbakken’s skilled hands, a mordant, lonely waiter in a declining restaurant becomes a raw, scrupulous force, powering one of the most purely entertaining novels I've read in years. This book is a meal you won’t want to finish.»
J. Ryan Stradal
Remains of the Day meets The Grand Budapest Hotel, the international sensation about a highly-strung waiter who loses control when an unexpected guest walks into his restaurant. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Black Swan
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9781784163983
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is a brilliantly exquisite view into an uproariously vigilant life of service and protocol. In Faldbakken’s skilled hands, a mordant, lonely waiter in a declining restaurant becomes a raw, scrupulous force, powering one of the most purely entertaining novels I've read in years. This book is a meal you won’t want to finish.»
J. Ryan Stradal
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Faldbakken has a way with non-action. He builds a delicious tension between the paucity of events and the lavishness of the technique with which they are described.
» New York Times
«A sly amuse bouche of a novel . . . its atmosphere and observations are deliciously rich.»
Mail on Sunday
«Bringing to mind Mervyn Peake and Wes Anderson, with some of Nathanael West’s deadpan grotesque, this is a beguiling, quirky entertainment.»
Kirkus
«A quirky slice of life»
Los Angeles Times