Gstaad 95-98

François Lepeltier lives by one rule: those who cannot become anything must become whatever they perform. Fathered by a passing French feather trader and raised in the sitting room of a Baden-Baden pension, he drifts with her from hotel to hotel across Europe, the pair surviving by stealing and selling sex to guests. Later he leaves her and attempts dentistry and ski teaching before setting his heart on serving wine at Gstaad's grandest hotel.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

316 pages in the original

Set in

Switzerland, Germany

First published

2002 by De Geus

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9789044500769 (original)