by Alain Claude Sulzer, Johannes Honigmann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742774005
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«Un garçon parfait» is the novel by Alain Claude Sulzer, published by Éditions Jacqueline Chambon in paperback (240 pages, in French).
A model waiter at a Swiss hotel hides a thirty-year-old passion for Jakob, a young apprentice who fled Nazi Europe to America with the intellectual Julius Klinger. When Jakob, ruined, writes asking for help, he must decide whether to finally act. The novel alternates between two eras and explores love, betrayal, and memory.
Translation from German by Johannes Honigmann. Original work: «Ein perfekter Kellner» (2004). The novel won the Prix Médicis étranger in 2008.
For readers of historical fiction and LGBT fiction: a story of love and memory with a Nazi backdrop and a homosexual protagonist.
Alain Claude Sulzer is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the NZZ. He has published more than ten books and has won several literary awards in the process, such as the Rauris Literature Prize (1984), or the Hermann-Hesse-Preis (2009).
