A review by gilmoreguide
The Waiter by Matias Faldbakken

The Waiter is a novel about the inner workings of a restaurant is the kind of thing that lands right in my sweet spot, but this was too dry for me to get through. It is a series of very long paragraphs crammed with descriptors and explanations of a famous restaurant in Oslo, Norway. The author is Norwegian and this is my second failed attempt to read translated Scandinavian fiction so it may be that I don’t get the style or humor, but there was no movement. I was hoping for something ala Sweetbitter, Hundred Foot Journey, or even Kitchen Confidential, but there was nothing to keep me reading. Check, please!