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A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

內容簡介

內容簡介 【巴黎侍者: 城市黑暗中心的冒險, 一位年輕作家眼中的底層巴黎】 服務生的工作，就是欺騙你。他們要讓你相信，一切都悠閒高雅，因為門的另一側──是地獄。在這本引人入勝的回憶錄中，愛德華．奇澤姆以自身經歷，帶你潛入巴黎光鮮外表之下的真實日常：極端工時、幾乎沒有睡眠、靠咖啡、麵包與香菸勉強度日。薪資低得可憐，為了小費你得與同事爭鬥──那些同事包括小偷、自戀狂、外籍傭兵、無證移民、懷才不遇的演員、毒販，而他們，就是你在這座城市中最像「家人」的存在。這是一份既耗體力又磨尊嚴、極度競爭的工作。但你仍心甘情願，因為你身在巴黎——世界的中心，而你再也不想去別的地方了。《巴黎侍者: 城市黑暗中心的冒險, 一位年輕作家眼中的底層巴黎》是一則殘酷又迷人的地下巴黎寫實記事，一份獻給勞動者的真誠告白。 Edward Chisholm’s spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter is the perfect summer read. It takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly.He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you’re fighting your colleagues for tips. Colleagues - including thieves, narcissists, ex-Legionnaires, paperless immigrants, wannabe actors and drug dealers - who are the closest thing to family that you’ve got.It’s physically demanding, frequently humiliating and incredibly competitive. But it doesn’t matter because you’re in Paris, the centre of the universe, and there’s nowhere else you’d rather be in the world.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Edward ChisholmEdward Chisholm was born in Dorset, England, and moved to Paris in 2012 after graduating from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.A resident there for seven years, Chisholm spent the first four of them working all manner of low-paid jobs, from waiting and bar work to museum security and market hand, while trying to build a career as a writer.Now, Chisholm makes a living as a copywriter pen for hire, with ambitions of writing novels. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian and the Financial Times magazine.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 服務生的工作，就是欺騙你。他們要讓你相信，一切都悠閒高雅，因為門的另一側──是地獄。一則殘酷又迷人的地下巴黎寫實記事，一份獻給勞動者的真誠告白。