01056nam a22002057a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040002700080041001200107082001400119100002500133245002100158247002600179250001100205260003400216300001900250500054900269700003200818OSt20251212080300.0250728b        |||||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d  a9781596914117  cGoethe Zentrum Library  aEnglish  aFP2008/09  aSulzer, Alain claude  aA Perfect Waiter  aEin Perfekter Kellner  a1st.ed  aNew York :bBloomsbury,c2008  a211p.c13x20cm  aErneste is the perfect waiter and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his proffession. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a voilent passion: He yaerns for a young waiter in training, Jakob, who broke his heart when he fled  Nazi-dominated Europe for a new life in America with his lover, a celebrated German intellectual. Nursing a broken heart, Erneste slinks even depper into his well ordered world, and spends the next thirty years hardening into what had previously only been a role........  aBrownjohn, JohneTranslator