“Like a character out of Camus or Kafka, Erneste does not appeal to us by his warmth or humanity he resists our pity. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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.
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